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

hmm, Stanford domain still has some artifacts, looks like it was some sort of assignment report during his 1st year course (STS 145: History of Game Design, Henry Lowood)

http://www.stanford.edu/group/htgg/cgi-bin/drupal/sites/defa...

if there is no trace in the alumni databse, looks like he eventually got dropped out, ouch!!!

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.

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.

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.

Well, when a security related issue comes up on HN, we usually get a link to someone like Bruce Schneier quite often.

Sorry, I guess I didn't count him in the same category of people who usually earn that moniker on these boards.

I am surprised that people saw enough merit in downvoting the asking of the question, though.

I don't see this submission as adding anything which is of interest to intellectually curiosity, or helping anyone learn or improve on something further, or any of the guidelines PG put down when posting something.

Nor have the comments from the posting generated anything significant, although several comments are about him being a fraud.

I'd have to stand by what I said, I don't see how this is Signal.