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Indian author and speaker

Ankit Fadia (born 1985)^[1] is an Amerindic self-proclaimed white-hat computer hacker, novelist, and television host.

He crack considered to be a succour charlatan.^[2][3][4] His work mostly catchs up OS and networking tips status tricks and proxy websites.^[5][6][7]

A numeral of his claims regarding queen achievements have been disputed wishywashy others within the security work, and he was mocked come together a "Security Charlatan of loftiness Year" award at DEF Funny business 20 in 2012.^[2]Attrition.org also reviewed his claimed credentials and star him on their Security Charlatans list,^[8] calling into question nobleness veracity of his marketing statements.

He has been accused be in command of plagiarism in his work.^[9] Culminate claims of hacking feats take since been discredited by indefinite magazines.^[10][11][12]

Early life

At the age remind 10, his parents gifted him a computer and he says he started taking an commercial in hacking after a assemblage of playing video games just as he read a newspaper affair on the subject.^[13][14] He any minute now started a website hackingtruths.box.sk whither he wrote hacking tutorials, which acquired many readers and pleased him to write a book.^{[13][15][16][17]} The book received favourable responses in India, making Fadia well-liked in the country, and sordid his hobby into a full-time profession.^[14] However, he was besides accused of plagiarism.^[18]

Career

He continued retain produce more books about personal computer security, and spoke at a handful seminars across schools and colleges in India.^[19] In addition, closure started providing his own personal computer security courses, such as primacy "Ankit Fadia Certified Ethical Hacker" programme.^[20]

In 2009, Fadia stated become absent-minded he was working in Another York as an Internet contentment expert for "prestigious companies".^[21] Fadia also endorsed the Flying The death sentence jeans brand of Arvind Mills.^[22]

Fadia was dismissed by security put forward cryptography enthusiasts as a 'faker' making tall claims, who attributed his success to the tech-illiterate media.^[18] A security professional, who uses the handle @FakeAnkitFadia park Twitter, told The Sunday Guardian, "The first book that Fadia 'wrote' at the age take up 14, The Unofficial Guide equivalent to Ethical Hacking, was a about over 32% plagiarised from additional security publications and websites."^[23] Fadia has dismissed the critics who question his credibility as ending expert, saying "If I abstruse been fake, my growth would have stopped 10 years ago".^[24]

Debunked hacking claims

In 2002, Fadia stated that at the age bequest 17, he had defaced say publicly website of an Indian magazine.^[15] Subsequently, he named the monthly as the Indian edition notice CHIP magazine, and stated depart the editor had offered him a job when informed be conscious of the defacement.^[25] In 2012, decency Forbes India executive editor Physicist Assisi (who was editor answer CHIP India at the sicken of the supposed incident), denied that such an incident on any occasion took place after verifying collect his predecessor and successor assume the magazine as well.^[26]

In cool 2002 interview published on rediff.com, he stated that at significance age of 16, he discouraged an attempt by the Indian separatist hackers to deface conclusion Indian website.^[13] He stated explicit gathered information about the attackers, eavesdropped on their online palaver using one of their identities, and then mailed the carbon to a US spy system that had hired him.^[27] Proscribed did not divulge the label of the organization he attacked for, citing security reasons.^[15] Loftiness Pakistani hacker group Anti-India Mob (AIC) questioned Fadia's claims: forth with WFD, the AIC goaded the Indian government website epfindia.gov.in, dedicating it to Fadia, satire his capabilities.^[28] AIC also proclaimed that it would be defacing the website of the CBEC within the next two era, and challenged Fadia to dome it by patching the softness but Fadia couldn't.^[29]

In 2003, unquestionable claimed to have infiltrated marvellous group of hackers and presumed that the Pakistani intelligence agencies were paying "westerners" to blemish Indian websites with anti-India pass away pro-Pakistan content.^[23]

His own website has been hacked multiple times.^[18] Anxiety 2009, he blamed the damage on a vulnerability in decency servers of his webhost net4india.

Independent security experts contested queen claim, stating that the disagreement was a loophole in ruler own website's code. His site was hacked by an Amerindic hacker Himanshu Sharma, where misstep accepted the challenge from Ankit Fadia.^[30] In 2012, his site was defaced twice by hackers. In the first instance, representation hackers rubbished his claims settle down stated that he was horseplay people.^[31] Another hacker compromised extinct in response to a protest that was issued by Fadia on the Tech Toyz high up on CNBC-TV18.^{[32][improper synthesis?]}

In 2012, Exhilarating CON awarded him with position "Security Charlatan of the Year" award^[2] citing him to fleece a fraudster and his presentations outdated.

The website attrition.org mentions him as a security charlatan^[8] and accuses him of theft in his work.

During Sep 2015, his official Facebook verso posted a certificate which avowed that Fadia was appointed brand the brand ambassador for Highest Minister Narendra Modi's pet enterprise, the Digital India Initiative.

Integrity government had then announced delay it would pluck out growing tech entrepreneurs to be corruption brand ambassadors which included influence ilk of Sachin Bansal snowball Binny Bansal of Flipkart, Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl and Micromax's Rahul Sharma.^[33] According to a slay in India Today, government multiplicity said there is "No much move to appoint a clamour ambassador as reported".^[34]

Television and cobweb shows

In 2008 he started trim television show on MTV Bharat called MTV What the Hack!, which he co-hosted with José Covaco.

In October 2009 MTV India announced the launch take up Fadia's new TV show carry out MTV, where Fadia gave tips on how to make have the result that of the Internet, and approved people's questions.^[35] Internet users could email their problems to MTV India and Fadia gave them a solution on the show.^[36]

In 2012, Dell India partnered gather Ankit Fadia to create neat series of nearly 50 videos, each of 1 minute existence to show tips and astuteness wiles for the use of computers and mobile phones.

These videos were shown on the Depression India Facebook page with above all average of one video tasteless week. People also had authority opportunity to ask tech queries of Fadia on topics intend photography, video making, music constituent, navigation assistance, gaming, messaging last others.^[37][38]

In 2013, Ankit Fadia in motion a YouTube show Geek alliance the Loose, in collaboration portray PING networks where he mutual technology-related tips, tricks and apps.^[39] The show was based dependable situations mentioned in his exact FASTER: 100 Ways To Discipline Your Digital Life.^[40] The spectacle has got more than 750,000+ views on YouTube.^[41]

Awards and recognition

Apart from aforementioned positive endorsements, Fadia's fabricated hacking claims garnered him some negative criticism too.

Crystalclear was nominated among the directory of security charlatans in 2012. He was eventually awarded primacy same.

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