Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-18 Thread ss
On Wednesday 18 Jan 2012 10:40:42 am Biju Chacko wrote: > Imagine a person whose learned gastroenterology by reading doctor's > prescriptions claiming to be (and being feted by the media as) India's > leading expert in the subject. It happens all the time, unfortunately. Popularity is based on abi

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-17 Thread Biju Chacko
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:08 PM, ss wrote: > On Monday 16 Jan 2012 12:59:49 pm Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay >> >> wrote: >> > Reputation is relative and fickle. And, those making serious money >> > have always ignored the first group. >> >>

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thejaswi Udupa [17/01/12 22:13 +0530]: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: or soundbite types like bruce schneier - who isn't anywhere near as much of an expert in physical security as he is in crypto, and loves to make colorful and overly general points that fall ap

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-17 Thread Anish Mohammed
>or soundbite types like bruce schneier - who isn't anywhere near as much of >an expert in physical security as he is in crypto, and loves to make >colorful and overly general points that fall apart once you dig deeper > . funny you said that, all the crypto folks who i have worked with, three gr

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-17 Thread Thejaswi Udupa
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > or soundbite types like bruce schneier - who isn't anywhere near as much of > an expert in physical security as he is in crypto, and loves to make > colorful and overly general points that fall apart once you dig deeper. But he's C

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Anish Mohammed [17/01/12 16:25 +]: Think this is the classic case of folks who know about things are always ignored by "TV shows". I have noticed this even with BBC, when they want to talk about security they would find someone who has "interesting" credentials in the space, to put in mildly

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-17 Thread Anish Mohammed
> > >Ankit Fadia's (in)abilities haven't been completely secret to a > >certain group of people and, his 'reputation' in that circle might be > >non-existent. > > >However, there are circles where his abilities are talked about, > >revered and feted. And, these don't only including the various TV >

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thejaswi Udupa [17/01/12 21:20 +0530]: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:08 PM, ss wrote: Exactly what is it about Ankit Fadia that gets people's goats? The same reason why Arindam Ponytail gets people's goats. please don't malign goats. i just had some delicious mutton biryani.

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-17 Thread Thejaswi Udupa
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:08 PM, ss wrote: > Exactly what is it about Ankit Fadia that gets people's goats? The same reason why Arindam Ponytail gets people's goats.

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-17 Thread ss
On Monday 16 Jan 2012 12:59:49 pm Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay > > wrote: > > Reputation is relative and fickle. And, those making serious money > > have always ignored the first group. > > Armpit Fraudia is ignorable - yes. Exactly what i

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-15 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > Reputation is relative and fickle. And, those making serious money > have always ignored the first group. Armpit Fraudia is ignorable - yes.

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 2:01 PM, ss wrote: >> 7000 x 15000/50 is $2 million. No one can hack into hard cash. > > Well, for some people their reputations are worth more than that. Ankit Fadia's (in)abilities haven't been completely secr

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-14 Thread Aanjhan Ranganathan
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Thejaswi Udupa wrote: > Everybody must get stoned. I concur with the above. -- A

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-14 Thread Thejaswi Udupa
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > In the good old days we would have had a good > old stoning in the town square Bring back the good old days! Everybody must get stoned.

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-14 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 2:01 PM, ss wrote: > 7000 x 15000/50 is $2 million. No one can hack into hard cash. Well, for some people their reputations are worth more than that. Money isn't all of it. In the good old days we would have had a good old stoning in the town square, now we will content o

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-14 Thread ss
On Wednesday 11 Jan 2012 5:04:26 pm Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > It should also be pointed out that Ankit Fadia offers his own brand of > certified ethical hacker classes at 6999 Indian Rupees with his own > page touting that graduates of this class can make upwards of $70K a > year overseas. I have

[silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-11 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
My my, 2012 might not be such a bad year if this is how it starts :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: InfoSec News Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:04 PM Subject: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH To: i...@infosecnews.org http://news.softpedia.com/news/Certifie