Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails • Hacker News Board

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by fredoliveira » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:36 PM UTC

m4k wrote: post #2

Its shameful that people like Rahul Tyagi and Ankit Fadia making fool to many organisation and students in India by showing kiddy tricks. Most surprising part is Ankit is getting business and he is teaching Hacking in some of the university in India.

When I was working for box.sk (so many years ago) a much younger Ankit submitted several articles to neworder.box.sk. Most of them were lifted verbatim from TCP IP Illustrated. He was exposed back then by our staff, but had a huge following of people who believed it really was his original material - people for whom it was easier to parse random internet articles than pick up a volume like TCP/IP Illustrated. The (now a) man has made a life for himself doing this kind of thing.

There's always going to be people like Fadia, and this Rahul. And sadly, there's always going to be people who believe these folks.

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by mr_luc » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:36 PM UTC

phatbyte wrote: post #4

I couldn't resist, his website is amazingly funny too http://rahultyagi.net/Home.html

Well, one of his sponsors is Lovely Professional University, so you know it's good.

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by dev_Gabriel » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:36 PM UTC

I want this book so hard! (not)

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by robgolding » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:45 PM UTC

vkkan wrote: post #10

more funny thing was at this page http://rahultyagi.net/About%20me.html

In few years he bang the world wide web with good computer ethical hacking articles!

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by simias » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:47 PM UTC

Who are those people? Why is there a smiley in the title? Why is this on the frontpage? I feel I lack some context here.

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by jasdeepnarang » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:47 PM UTC

I can point out about 100 more people who are like Rahul and Ankit... :)

You should definitely check out the mockery coming out of http://www.defconpunjab.com/

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by mahmud » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:49 PM UTC

fredoliveira wrote: post #11

m4k wrote: post #2

Its shameful that people like Rahul Tyagi and Ankit Fadia making fool to many organisation and students in India by showing kiddy tricks. Most surprising part is Ankit is getting business and he is teaching Hacking in some of the university in India.

When I was working for box.sk (so many years ago) a much younger Ankit submitted several articles to neworder.box.sk. Most of them were lifted verbatim from TCP IP Illustrated. He was exposed back then by our staff, but had a huge following of people who believed it really was his original material - people for whom it was easier to parse random internet articles than pick up a volume like TCP/IP Illustrated. The (no…

I remember that. At the time was 14, I think, and hyped by Indian press.

box was good. respect.

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by yogeshkhatri » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:50 PM UTC

phatbyte wrote: post #4

I couldn't resist, his website is amazingly funny too http://rahultyagi.net/Home.html

and try to click in the submenu that appears on hovering on "Talk to Me". Its tricky.

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by Auguste » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:52 PM UTC

simias wrote: post #15

Who are those people? Why is there a smiley in the title? Why is this on the frontpage? I feel I lack some context here.

There isn't a lot of context, but the tl;dr is that Attrition.org keeps track of charlatans and plagiarists in the security industry, and Rahul Tyagi is allegedly one of them.

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

* http://attrition.org/errata/plagiarism/

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by xfax » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:52 PM UTC

Just did a bit of Googling on Ankit Fadia and Rahul Tyagi.

Damn, are these guys really delusional or are they just good at selling themselves? Not that the Indian media helps - they are incredible at chest-thumping at the most mediocre things.