Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Sachin T "Rested"
That's the politically correct word for dropped. Yeah he has an injury and all that, but then if that was the case wtf was he playing in the 3rd test? Usually the docs tell you "hey this shit is not going to go away.. get under the knife" and such diagnosis is commonly done at an early stage. Considering that he is such a high profie cricketer, it would be more urgently done in his case. So off he goes for his rest and I hope he thinks seriously about playing his cricket because he loves and not because he wants to create more records. I think he has plenty and if that is his motivation, it is time to hang the boots before he becomes like Kapil Dev in his last stages.
Monday, March 20, 2006
Too late for Sachin Tendulkar
The ICC monkeys adopted an Anti doping policy . I was about to write to Sachin to get in touch with the great* Barry Bonds of USA to figure out how to juice up, recover faster from injuries and overall increase his average by a gizzillion in his late thirties. Since the ICC had no doping policy before this, he could have saved the embarrasment that he is currently undergoing and gone back in time with his form. Too late, sachin... too late. Now all you have left are Protein shakes, that is if you take them. So what if cricketing form has left you man, there is always Major league baseball with its wimpy anti doping policy.
Friday, March 10, 2006
The Indian "hacking Guru"
Ankit Fadia - the Hacking Guru or whatever else the indian media calls him. He has written 2-3 books on "ethical hacking" and he is geneally hailed a a boy genius who has helped some US agencies (that cant be named) to catch Al qaeda. He has also done a lot of ethical hacking work as an under cover agent and cant be disclosed. I first came across his site 6 years ago, when he used to write as a 14 year old about simple windows hacks. Some of them were pretty interesting and for a 14 year old were commendable. Note: This is not a personal attack on the guy's intelligence or mental capability because I am sure Stanford takes in no dummies in their Computer Sceince dept. At the same time, the information that he published on his site wasn't exclusive but available on other places as well. This was way back in 2000. Later on I read in the newspapers he is giving lectures to companies about security and also at IIT's. Now the Indian media will make a mountain out of a mole on the behest of someone who says "Look at that mountain, while pointing towards the mole". Prime examples are-
The Indian genius who made fuel out of water in 1997. As usual the media went ga-ga over his "feat". Later on when it was put under the microscope by some IIT professors, they found his theory held no water... err rather just held water and no fuel. The most recent example was of the U.P boy topping the NASA exam. Now when the media is so pumped up to sell anything that will make people sit up and take notice, I sometimes wonder did anyone verify what Mr Fadia actually did or did not do? A search about him on the web yields a resume which states the following
"Fadia is however, more well known for his significant work in the field of digital intelligence, security consultancy and training. In November 2001, Fadia was consulted by a classified intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message (believed to have been) sent by one of Osama Bin Laden’s men"
Now I dont even wanna start about bin laden's men computer/tech skills, but a logical question from a person with computer sceince background would be" What kind of encryption are we talking about here" Ceaser cipher? or was it a 40 bit DES encrypted message. But these are hard questions for media people to ask, primarily because they are not computer science graduates. Secondly they will not make an effort to contact an authority on this subject and ask them "Hey is this a big deal what this guy did? Has anyone done this before?". For most media, a guy who uses anything other than windows(linux?) is a HACKER!! So we have another hero amongst us who has been put up on the pedstal by the media. How did I reach this conclusion?
Hey the guys resume looks impressive, he studies in stanford which is a damn good school and has given plenty of lectures on computer security. Heck he has even written books as I mentioned earlier. But has anyone read them? Apparently 80,000 people. So some of them decided to leave their comments on Amazon.com here
I havent read any, so I will refrain from commenting on the books but I am definately not going to waste my time reading those now. Something else that I found out about his hacking skills is that he hacked into the grading system in his college. See it here. Again this is a student news paper, so where is the damn credibilty? How do I know that he didnt call the student paper and tell them "hey dudes want a cool story... print this ..". They may get a little apprehensive at first but then the google god has so many stories about him(Indian newspapers), so they believe it.
So what did they do next? Print another article about his exploits. A quote from this second article which is my fav.
"I work pretty closely with the Singapore government,” he said. “Recently a law was passed in Singapore based on my recommendation and that allows the Singapore police to arrest anyone based on suspicion. If they think that you’re planning to break into a Singapore government server, they can arrest you."
Pure genious I tell you. That just proves it! Now the singapore govt can go and take down anyone they dont like, just because they are suspicious of being hacked. I am sure he must have told Bush to "Tap into the phones of American people because they all talk to Al Qaeda" Ok this "fact" will come out in the next fall's newspaper at Stanford.
They guy is probably not all phony, 'cos he as compiled all that information in his books. For his age that is remarkable, but we will see more and more of hackers of his kind now that the internet is available to a larger populace in India. What worked in his favor, was the fact that he was from the first from a small generation of Indian kids, whose parents were able to afford a computer at home along with an internet connection in the late 90's. Such kids were minuscle in numbers compared to the generation today and he was one who actually gave some time to teach himself the basics of security from the available sources at an early age. Then at some point he realized he could write well, so he wrote a webpage about the stuff that he had found out. As far as hacking Indian sites go, computer security was not well understood subject back then by the western companies, forget the Indian companies. A well known security expert broke into BSNL's network at a press conference where he was launching a computer security firm. Computer security was in its baby stage where "easy" exploits were available for lots of script kiddies to enjoy and claim their "haxOr" status.
At some stage he realized most people are just learning things that he learnt at the age of 16, so why not tell them what I know. Lets go and lecture and tell them I know this. Again the people at his talk are mostly media people who dont understand shit about shit anyways. So next day people see the "great Indian hackging guru" proclaiming MSn is shit, yahoo rocks and windoze sucks!!
What beats me is the fact that this guy went into the IIT's supposedly and he delievered lectures. Man wtf were the students there doing? Did they not know most of the stuff that he was talking about? Ofcourse the other places where he lectured, like to Pune police, I could have sent my grandma with a script and gotten them to believe that wearing underwear while working on the computer is dangerous and thye should believe her as she is the expert on this subject and she says she is.That more then enough proof.
Finally, I would give the guy following
1. He made a lot of money with his books which look like as if they were mostly compiled from various sources on the web
2. He is probably a good public speaker
3. He knew the basics of security at an early age when most guys of his age were trying to talk to girls and "discover" other joys of teenage
4. At stanford, he realized a lot of freshman had already gotten laid, were getting laid and he was computer science geek with no chance of getting laid. So he went and hacked the chinese govt. and is probably trying to impress chicks with his exploits now.
There is a lot of anecdotal eveidence for the first three, the last one I just know from being in computer science. No I did not hack the chinese govt, but definately the govt of Trinidad and Tobago and I am waiting for my article in my school newspaper.
The Indian genius who made fuel out of water in 1997. As usual the media went ga-ga over his "feat". Later on when it was put under the microscope by some IIT professors, they found his theory held no water... err rather just held water and no fuel. The most recent example was of the U.P boy topping the NASA exam. Now when the media is so pumped up to sell anything that will make people sit up and take notice, I sometimes wonder did anyone verify what Mr Fadia actually did or did not do? A search about him on the web yields a resume which states the following
"Fadia is however, more well known for his significant work in the field of digital intelligence, security consultancy and training. In November 2001, Fadia was consulted by a classified intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message (believed to have been) sent by one of Osama Bin Laden’s men"
Now I dont even wanna start about bin laden's men computer/tech skills, but a logical question from a person with computer sceince background would be" What kind of encryption are we talking about here" Ceaser cipher? or was it a 40 bit DES encrypted message. But these are hard questions for media people to ask, primarily because they are not computer science graduates. Secondly they will not make an effort to contact an authority on this subject and ask them "Hey is this a big deal what this guy did? Has anyone done this before?". For most media, a guy who uses anything other than windows(linux?) is a HACKER!! So we have another hero amongst us who has been put up on the pedstal by the media. How did I reach this conclusion?
Hey the guys resume looks impressive, he studies in stanford which is a damn good school and has given plenty of lectures on computer security. Heck he has even written books as I mentioned earlier. But has anyone read them? Apparently 80,000 people. So some of them decided to leave their comments on Amazon.com here
I havent read any, so I will refrain from commenting on the books but I am definately not going to waste my time reading those now. Something else that I found out about his hacking skills is that he hacked into the grading system in his college. See it here. Again this is a student news paper, so where is the damn credibilty? How do I know that he didnt call the student paper and tell them "hey dudes want a cool story... print this ..". They may get a little apprehensive at first but then the google god has so many stories about him(Indian newspapers), so they believe it.
So what did they do next? Print another article about his exploits. A quote from this second article which is my fav.
"I work pretty closely with the Singapore government,” he said. “Recently a law was passed in Singapore based on my recommendation and that allows the Singapore police to arrest anyone based on suspicion. If they think that you’re planning to break into a Singapore government server, they can arrest you."
Pure genious I tell you. That just proves it! Now the singapore govt can go and take down anyone they dont like, just because they are suspicious of being hacked. I am sure he must have told Bush to "Tap into the phones of American people because they all talk to Al Qaeda" Ok this "fact" will come out in the next fall's newspaper at Stanford.
They guy is probably not all phony, 'cos he as compiled all that information in his books. For his age that is remarkable, but we will see more and more of hackers of his kind now that the internet is available to a larger populace in India. What worked in his favor, was the fact that he was from the first from a small generation of Indian kids, whose parents were able to afford a computer at home along with an internet connection in the late 90's. Such kids were minuscle in numbers compared to the generation today and he was one who actually gave some time to teach himself the basics of security from the available sources at an early age. Then at some point he realized he could write well, so he wrote a webpage about the stuff that he had found out. As far as hacking Indian sites go, computer security was not well understood subject back then by the western companies, forget the Indian companies. A well known security expert broke into BSNL's network at a press conference where he was launching a computer security firm. Computer security was in its baby stage where "easy" exploits were available for lots of script kiddies to enjoy and claim their "haxOr" status.
At some stage he realized most people are just learning things that he learnt at the age of 16, so why not tell them what I know. Lets go and lecture and tell them I know this. Again the people at his talk are mostly media people who dont understand shit about shit anyways. So next day people see the "great Indian hackging guru" proclaiming MSn is shit, yahoo rocks and windoze sucks!!
What beats me is the fact that this guy went into the IIT's supposedly and he delievered lectures. Man wtf were the students there doing? Did they not know most of the stuff that he was talking about? Ofcourse the other places where he lectured, like to Pune police, I could have sent my grandma with a script and gotten them to believe that wearing underwear while working on the computer is dangerous and thye should believe her as she is the expert on this subject and she says she is.That more then enough proof.
Finally, I would give the guy following
1. He made a lot of money with his books which look like as if they were mostly compiled from various sources on the web
2. He is probably a good public speaker
3. He knew the basics of security at an early age when most guys of his age were trying to talk to girls and "discover" other joys of teenage
4. At stanford, he realized a lot of freshman had already gotten laid, were getting laid and he was computer science geek with no chance of getting laid. So he went and hacked the chinese govt. and is probably trying to impress chicks with his exploits now.
There is a lot of anecdotal eveidence for the first three, the last one I just know from being in computer science. No I did not hack the chinese govt, but definately the govt of Trinidad and Tobago and I am waiting for my article in my school newspaper.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Intelligent design
Damn I like the theory of creation, actually let me rephrase that "The law of intelligent design and creation". If you dont believe me the proof is right here man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Take that!! you science whores, sons of newtons and einstein, who by the way was part of a secret society trying to lead people astray. What? You are laughing? You dumb ass, the proof is there in the Da Vince code. Man people just wanna question everything. Atleast I dont question science, because I know it is bull freaking crap and I also know that the earth is tillted on the head of a giant snake.(The secret reason that I hate science is because I was never good at it) Yeah I bet science could have never explained why the earth is tilted on its axis. Of course there is the other theory of the earth being a part of the axis of evil, but I am still gathering proof on that and so is Bush. Watch out for his next sate of the union address.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Take that!! you science whores, sons of newtons and einstein, who by the way was part of a secret society trying to lead people astray. What? You are laughing? You dumb ass, the proof is there in the Da Vince code. Man people just wanna question everything. Atleast I dont question science, because I know it is bull freaking crap and I also know that the earth is tillted on the head of a giant snake.(The secret reason that I hate science is because I was never good at it) Yeah I bet science could have never explained why the earth is tilted on its axis. Of course there is the other theory of the earth being a part of the axis of evil, but I am still gathering proof on that and so is Bush. Watch out for his next sate of the union address.
Monday, March 06, 2006
Guide to dating for Geeks
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/sextips/. This is on Eric Raymond's website. Enough said!
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