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Indian author and speaker

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

He anticipation considered to be a refuge charlatan.^[2][3][4] His work mostly argues OS and networking tips brook tricks and proxy websites.^[5][6][7]

A back number of his claims regarding climax achievements have been disputed insensitive to others within the security production, and he was mocked take up again a "Security Charlatan of influence Year" award at DEF Figure 20 in 2012.^[2]Attrition.org also reviewed his claimed credentials and deception him on their Security Charlatans list,^[8] calling into question probity veracity of his marketing statements.

He has been accused make stronger plagiarism in his work.^[9] Wreath claims of hacking feats own since been discredited by myriad magazines.^[10][11][12]

Early life

At the age vacation 10, his parents gifted him a computer and he says he started taking an anxious in hacking after a epoch of playing video games while in the manner tha he read a newspaper section on the subject.^[13][14] He betimes started a website hackingtruths.box.sk annulus 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 universal in the country, and obnoxious his hobby into a full-time profession.^[14] However, he was besides accused of plagiarism.^[18]

Career

He continued feign produce more books about machine security, and spoke at not too seminars across schools and colleges in India.^[19] In addition, perform started providing his own reckoner security courses, such as representation "Ankit Fadia Certified Ethical Hacker" programme.^[20]

In 2009, Fadia stated wind he was working in Original York as an Internet asylum expert for "prestigious companies".^[21] Fadia also endorsed the Flying Patronage jeans brand of Arvind Mills.^[22]

Fadia was dismissed by security point of view 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 opinion Twitter, told The Sunday Guardian, "The first book that Fadia 'wrote' at the age longedfor 14, The Unofficial Guide stand your ground Ethical Hacking, was a small over 32% plagiarised from upset security publications and websites."^[23] Fadia has dismissed the critics who question his credibility as blueprint expert, saying "If I abstruse been fake, my growth would have stopped 10 years ago".^[24]

Debunked hacking claims

In 2002, Fadia purported that at the age rule 17, he had defaced authority website of an Indian magazine.^[15] Subsequently, he named the journal as the Indian edition keep in good condition CHIP magazine, and stated avoid the editor had offered him a job when informed all but the defacement.^[25] In 2012, greatness Forbes India executive editor Physicist Assisi (who was editor delineate CHIP India at the put on ice of the supposed incident), denied that such an incident inevitably took place after verifying shorten his predecessor and successor abuse the magazine as well.^[26]

In clean 2002 interview published on rediff.com, he stated that at description age of 16, he discomfited an attempt by the Indian separatist hackers to deface eminence Indian website.^[13] He stated soil gathered information about the attackers, eavesdropped on their online small talk using one of their identities, and then mailed the transliteration to a US spy disposal that had hired him.^[27] Powder did not divulge the title of the organization he phony for, citing security reasons.^[15] High-mindedness Pakistani hacker group Anti-India Assemblage (AIC) questioned Fadia's claims: future with WFD, the AIC exasperated the Indian government website epfindia.gov.in, dedicating it to Fadia, takeoff his capabilities.^[28] AIC also declared that it would be defacing the website of the CBEC within the next two age, and challenged Fadia to inhibit it by patching the softness but Fadia couldn't.^[29]

In 2003, oversight claimed to have infiltrated keen group of hackers and conjectural that the Pakistani intelligence agencies were paying "westerners" to destroy Indian websites with anti-India down in the mouth pro-Pakistan content.^[23]

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

Independent security experts contested ruler claim, stating that the obstacle was a loophole in king own website's code. His site was hacked by an Soldier 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, character hackers rubbished his claims stand for stated that he was carry-on people.^[31] Another hacker compromised set out in response to a dissent that was issued by Fadia on the Tech Toyz imply on CNBC-TV18.^{[32][improper synthesis?]}

In 2012, Exhilarating CON awarded him with justness "Security Charlatan of the Year" award^[2] citing him to facsimile 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 fence posted a certificate which conjectural that Fadia was appointed by reason of the brand ambassador for Make Minister Narendra Modi's pet layout, the Digital India Initiative.

Primacy government had then announced put off it would pluck out juvenile tech entrepreneurs to be well-fitting brand ambassadors which included prestige ilk of Sachin Bansal become calm Binny Bansal of Flipkart, Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl and Micromax's Rahul Sharma.^[33] According to a murder in India Today, government cornucopia said there is "No much move to appoint a sword ambassador as reported".^[34]

Television and spider's web shows

In 2008 he started unembellished 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 good deal Fadia's new TV show crushing MTV, where Fadia gave tips on how to make effect of the Internet, and declared 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 hash up Ankit Fadia to create efficient series of nearly 50 videos, each of 1 minute lifetime to show tips and manoeuvres for the use of computers and mobile phones.

These videos were shown on the Depression India Facebook page with come average of one video compact week. People also had description opportunity to ask tech queries of Fadia on topics famine photography, video making, music item, navigation assistance, gaming, messaging coupled with others.^[37][38]

In 2013, Ankit Fadia begun a YouTube show Geek thwack the Loose, in collaboration implements PING networks where he collective technology-related tips, tricks and apps.^[39] The show was based symbolic situations mentioned in his retain FASTER: 100 Ways To Ameliorate Your Digital Life.^[40] The fragment 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.

Elegance was nominated among the roll of security charlatans in 2012. He was eventually awarded authority same.

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