FSUG-Bangalore April 2006

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[x-post]Ankit Fadia : The real picture
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

FYI cheers --arky --- Prabhat Sandheliya <prabhat.news(a)gmail.com> wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 15:30:47 +0530 From: "Prabhat Sandheliya" <prabhat.news(a)gmail.com To: Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in Subject: [Fsf-friends] Ankit Fadia : The real picture Dear All, Yesterday (03-04-2006)I attended a seminar by a so-called "Hacking Guru" Ankit Fadia, at DAVV, Indore (MP) auditorium. I just want to share my feelings with you. The Seminar was a complete failure, though it was attended by about well over 100 people, but was a complete disaster. The very first thing by which I was offended badly was using the sacred word "Hacking" to demonstrate something we, the hackers, call cracking. The seminar topic was "Ethical Hacking", now I want to ask Mr Fadia, what is unethical about hacking ? Hacking is very positive word and there in no need to put "Ethical" before it. By the way his seminar topic should be "Ethical Cracking". If you really want to become a hacker, please read an article by a real hacker, Eric Steven Raymond (ESR). The man who changed the history by writing a paper "Cathedral and Bazaar". please read the article here : http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html<http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/hacker-howto.html The people who can not differentiate between hacking and cracking, should read an article by the GOD of hackers Richad M Stallman (RMS), the man who started GNU movement all by himself. The gcc (compiler), gdb (debugger), emacs (editor) are some of the most popular softwares in the world written by him. Please read the article here : http://www.outpost9.com/reference/jargon/jargon_69.html The things Fadia demonstrated were ancient techniques used by crackers to break into some one's machine. Now a days even 10 year olds can download these tools from Internet to control others' machines. Can we call them hackers ?? If he calls it hacking, I doubt if he understands the term even "Cracking", leave hacking altogether. This childish behavior is called script kiddie. IP spoofing, SQL Injection, password cracking softwares, Trojan horse programs, these are the tools of cyber criminals. So I wonder what is the significance of the term "Ethical" here ?? In the entire session I kept waiting for some program or utility, written by himself. But I don't thing he had something like this to share with audience. The entire session was demonstration of third party utilities, and the saddest thing was no mention of the name of any author of any utility. He didn't care to give some credits to the utility developers. What a shame !!! Mr Fadia, I real hacker always respect the creativity of others, and before using their work proper credits are given, this is the hacker's attitude. It's not like that, you download something from Internet, use it and forget the person, who made it. That's pretty mean. Second most annoying thing was that he calls himself a "hacker" and was using a Windows XP operating system ???? I have been in to computers for the past 10 years and I never come across any real hacker who uses Windows. I met Brian(Apache creator), Andy Cleen, Alon cox, Rusty (all networking gods), RMS (the GOD himself) but all of them were using some or other form of Unix or Linux. Come on, MR Fadia, Windows is the worst OS in the world, full of security holes, so what is the point to break into a Windows machine ???? What do you want to prove ???? He only once mentioned Linux, just to tell how you can use it's live CD to boot a Windows machine and cracke the password. Actually, before attending the seminar, I Googled a lot about Fadia and his work. But what I could find was self acclaiming statement by Fadia about himself and his future and just crap, crap and crap by technology illiterate Indian news papers' reports. I just want to share my findings with you. Vulnerabilities patches by Fadia = 0 (He may know how to break in, but doesn't know how to fix up) Bugtraq id's by Fadia = 0 Hacking / Security tool by fadia = 0 (He simply Goolge and download the tools from Internet, that's not cracking. Actual cracker is the programmer, but Fadia never ever gives due credits. Now that's not hacking, that's stealing) Any open source software by Fadia = 0 (He is afraid of suggesting Linux to people, 'coz it's secure) Any Linux or Windows software security patch = 0 Any recommendation or recognition by Real Hacker Community = 0 (They laugh at him. He is just a kid) Software / Cryptography patents by Fadia = 0 Algorithms by Fadia = 0 Any official citation by FBI/CIA/CBI for Fadia = 0 (They don't even bother about any explanation) Any confirmation of his self-claims = 0 (Nobody, expect him knows, if they are real) Any confirmation of him decrypting Osama's message = 0 (Hahahahahahahaha) Any original technical tutorial or book by Fadia = 0 (He simply copy the things and never he never ever gives due credits to the original authors.) Any originality in his tutes or books = 0 (Hahahahahahaha) Skill level of Fadia = Only God knows !!! I tried to read a few books by him, but to my wonder some part of his books are nothing but simple "copy and paste" material from well known sites for Windows registry editing. Please visit www.winguides.com and compare the material with his first book. Oh God ! this is the clear violation of intellectual property rights of the website. Please inform the webmaster. I have done it already. I was astonished by the course he came to promote here, "Ethical hacker certified by Ankit Fadia" ! He sill is child in hacking field, and he is giving the certificates for hacking ????? And worst thing, Reliance web world is promoting it. What a shame !!! Have all gone mad ? Can't they see ? Unfortunately, question and answer round was cut from the seminar, that's also because of Fadia arrived there one hour late. Well, that's India's celebrity style statement. Otherwise, I would have asked all these questions to him there only. Anyways, I went to him at the end of the seminar, and asked if Windows is so vulnerable, can he suggest audience to use Linux rather than Windows. And the reply came was straight "NO". What a shame ??? I understood the reason, why he said no. The reason is same why Microsoft does not patch up it's OS. Plain economics. If you make system secure with Linux who is going to ask for people like Fadia, so called "security expert" ??? I want to make an appeal to all of you, please make all of your friends aware of these facts. Let one should not get undeserved advantage. I also want to appeal news papers, please do not make a hero out of nothing. Stop polluting the honest media by prejudiced reports. And at the end I want to tell Mr Fadia, that I don't have any personal problem with you or your achievements, but please behave properly in hacking community. We hackers are very positive people we never ever try to harm anybody, until he comes to our or our philosophy's way. Please stop calling your self a hacker, if does not understand the hacker culture. And for god sake, stop behaving like a child, now you are in college, so GROW UP !!! Prabhat. PS : I am sending this mail to Mr Fadia, Reliance web world, most of Linux mailing lists and all of my friends. Please post your comments at lug-indore(a)googlegroups.com

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Fwd: [DebianIndia] Debian Developers' Workshop - Program Details
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sundara Nagarajan <snagrajn(a)yahoo.com> Date: Apr 1, 2006 1:17 PM Subject: [DebianIndia] Debian Developers' Workshop - Program Details To: DebianIndia(a)yahoogroups.com (This content is also available as PDF file at the DebianIndia Yahoo! Group-Files Section) Debian Developersâ€™ Workshop â€" Program Details Saturday April 8, 2006 2:00pm-6:00pm at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (http://www.iiitb.ac.in) <http://www.iiitb.ac.in%29> The Debian Developersâ€™ Workshop is planned as a get together of those who are either contributing to the Debian Project as developers or in the path to contributing to this project. The objective of the workshop is facilitating face-to-face interaction among developers and therefore substantial time is allocated to hands-on work. During this time, you can show the problems you are facing and potentially seek help from others or demonstrate your work and generate feedback and more participation. Several links are added to the DebianIndia Yahoo! group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DebianIndia/ to support your preparation to participate. This event is planned to be in the workshop format, meaning all participants will present their work and interest in the Debian Project. Limit the presentation plus demo plus Q&A to about 15 minutes per package. The presentations are expected to follow the broad template as follows: 1. What is the scope of the work? 2. Packages (if applicable), sub-projects (e.g., Debian.IN) 3. Sharing your progress and experience. 4. Challenges, hurdles. 5. Support required. Please load your presentations at the â€œFilesâ€ section in the DebianIndia group before the workshop. Key-signing: The two Debian Developers, Ganesan Rajagopal and Ramakrishnan M. have agreed to participate and support key signing. If you are interested to make use of this opportunity for key signing, please contact them expressing your interest in advance with the following details of yours by e-mail (Name, contact details, GPG key ID and fingerprint.) You are expected to bring two photo IDs identifying yourself. Please bring the originals and hand over a copy to the developer with whom you are interacting. This workshop is not a training or tutorial program. If you are not working with Debian as a developer in the project (http://www.debian.org/devel/) <http://www.debian.org/devel/%29> nor are interested to grow into one, you are unlikely to benefit from participating in the workshop. Registration: Please visit the DebianIndia group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DebianIndia/ and respond to the poll about your participation. There is no registration fee. Agenda 1:45pm-2:00pm Registration/Introductions 2:00pm-2:10pm Welcome & Workshop Plan â€" S. Nagarajan 2:10pm-3:30pm Presentation and remarks by Ramakrishnan M. and Ganesan Rajagopal. Followed by: Presentation by Debian Developers (Requires pre- registration.) Laptop computers will be available with Debian loaded for any demo. 3:30pm-3:45pm Coffee/Tea break 3:45pm-4:45pm Presentations (continued) 4:45pm-5:45pm Key signing along with hands-on interaction time. 5:45pm-6:00pm Follow up action planning and close of the day. Courtesy: The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bangalore is providing the support for this workshop. The Debian India team is grateful for the support and encouragement of IIIT-B. -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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[Event/Film] BFS Cinema,Coffee,Conversations #4
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

FYI --arky -------------------------------------------------------------- Cinema, Coffee, Conversations Edition #4 Bangalore Film Society (BFS) presents four movies from across the globe, each one a masterwork, each one a piece of cinema, the kind you've rarely seen before. Saturday, April 8, 2006. Timing: 3.30 pm Man on the Train (France) (91 mins) Dir: Patrice Leconte Acclaimed director Leconte's refreshing, witty spin on the western genre follows the unexpected friendship that strikes up between two old timers- one, a mysterious, grizzled bank robber and the other a gregarious retired French teacher. A simple fable of loss, regret, fate, friendship and the passage of time, the movie gathered Best Film and Best Actor trophies at the 2003 Venice Film Festival. Saturday, April 8, 2006 Timing: 6.00 pm Coffee and Cigarettes (USA) (89 mins) Dir: Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch, the master of the absurd, comes out with his most absurd offering yet. A series of 11 short, comic vignettes shot over a period of 11 years with an eclectic, all-star cast is a beautiful, heartfelt and crazy eulogy to the world's favorite addictions* coffee and cigarettes. Sunday, April 9, 2006 Timing: 3.30 pm The Eel (Japan) (113 mins) Dir: Shohei Imamura A movie like none other- a constantly surprising, genre shifting, darkly humorous, always unique and brilliant meditation on guilt and jealousy. The film follows the protagonist's strange quest for redemption after murdering his cheating wife in a fit of jealous rage. It won the Palm d'Or at the 97' Cannes Film Festival making Imamura only the third director to win the prestigious award twice. Sunday, April 9, 2006 Timing: 6.00 pm Close Up (Iran)(98 mins) Dir: Abbas Kiarostami Hailed as the definitive film-on-film experience, the movie is a one- of *a-kind documentary, which blends fact and fiction as it chronicles a cinephile's attempt at impersonation, to literally turn into the filmmaker he admires- Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Admission Free. Date and Time: 8th April, 2006: Man on the Train- 3.30 pm Coffee and Cigarettes- 6.00 pm 9th April, 2006: The Eel- 3.30 pm. Close Up- 6.00 pm Venue: No. 33/1-9, Thyagaraj Layout, Jaibharath Nagar, MS Nagar PO, Bangalore- 560033. Tel: 25492774/ 25492779 Mob: 9886213516 Email: bfs(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in Website: http://bfs.wikia.com Join the discussion forum at: http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/b_f_s/ Forward the message to all interested.

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[Event/Film]Fassbinder Films At Suchitra Film Society
by Rakesh 'arky' Ambati 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

FYI --arky ------------------------------------------------ Greetings from Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore! We are happy to invite you to some classics of the New German Cinema this week. Suchitra Film Society is screening three films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Love is colder than Death - 5th April The Merchant of Four Seasons - 6th April Fear eats the Soul - 7th April Time: 6.45 p.m. Venue: Suchitra Film Society # 36 B.V.Karanth Road/ 9th Main Banashankari II Stage Bangalore 560 070 Ph: 26711785 We hope you will be able to watch the films and are sure you will enjoy them. With best wishes, Maureen Gonsalves Programme Coordinator Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan 716 CMH Road Indiranagar 1st Stage Bangalore 560 038 Tel: +91 80 2520 5305/06/07/08 Ext: 203 Fax: +91 80 2520 5309 arts(a)bangalore.goethe.org www.goethe.de/bangalore -------------------------------------------------------------------

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