Hacker Guru (self-proclaimed) Ankit Fadia’s website Hacked (again)

GAHH. For pure, unbridled pain, watch this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a... (a little TV snippet with Ankit Fadia). This man repulses every tiny little fiber of me. From the video (referring to makers of anti-virus software) - "They create the virus, they infect your computer... this is a well known fact within the security community"

Also, his technical expertise extends as far as advising people to install anti-virus and anti-spyware software to protect themselves. Brilliant.

In his defense he was 14 years old at the time he wrote a book that was 66% his original content, I don't think many 14 year old will think about plagiarizing when writing a book. The publisher is responsible for publishing a badly written partly plagiarized book. I presume the publisher didn't care and just saw dollar signs in marketing a 14 year old 'prodigy'. Now 9 years later, he either believes that he is a great hacker because people have being telling him this for the last 9 years or he is to afraid to tell he isn't. In the end of the day the publisher and other s around him are responsible for his image. I feel bad for him when he is unmask by the big media as a fraud. Because when that happens he will be 23 or so years old and a world known fraudster. In my view this is not his fault has he was to young at the time to understand what was going on and what impact it would have on his life, the soul responsibility is with the publisher and his parents.

Ankit Fadia is a fraudster.

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ankit_fadia/

Isn't the rage against this guy the same as those against MBA's. People feel being good at one thing means good at everything else Eg: All programmers are supposed to be rich and good at money games. And if they are bad at something they must be bad at every thing Eg: An MBA who is bad at some aspects of work, now as assumed should never be paid well.

This guy might be no hacker, but is darn good at marketing. Just have a look at the way he has sold himself. Even if all he has done is written plagiarized books and taught novelty windows tricks.

This actually speaks volumes about how thins workout in the real world. All sweat and blood aside. Selling your self, blowing your own trumpet and learning to play the money game is crucial if you want to be rich.

Merely a cubicle slave 16 hour work day nerd hacker is not going to be rich or successful. Because hard work is one of the many qualifications needed to be successful.

Well, most Indian programmers know Ankit Fadia is a joke, and I understand collective fun we had - but at the end of day, this news is not hackernews worthy.

He is one of those who is just a loud mouth, without any knowledge...

Imagine 17 year old hacking site of hackher guru(!!!?)

Well, this shows he is not competent in what he proclaims to be an area of his competency.

I don't know how old is he now, may be in his 20s. I remember seeing him on TV few years back, that time he came across as a bright kid (and was comparatively lean compared to the way he looks now). Then, he was in his late teens (or may be just 20), and had written a book on Computer security.

It seems, excessive media exposure at an early age, did come in the way of his development. In this video he is clearly challenging people to attack his site, in a boastful way. So can say, the deface served him right.

Indian media has given him too much hype ...

Why is this here? I knew he was an annoyance to people in India, but can't see how its relevant to HN?

Please educate me if I am missing something.

The hackers must be on a casual web patrol and they stumble on his website again. They must be then thinking, "oh! let's play some pranks." Blip, blip, blip, blip ... 10 seconds ... hacked. "WTF! That wasn't even funny."

did this guy really attend stanford? but I have found this link in their almuni page --

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?articl...

Ankit Fadia is as much of a hacker as Poonam Pandey is an astrophysicist.

Fadia is a piece of joke.

https://twitter.com/ankit_fadia this is his twitter acct. you can blast him off there as well. he is a self-proclaimed ethical hacker. The previous sentence is correct till the point "self-proclaimed".