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Indian author and speaker

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

He bash considered to be a consolation charlatan.^[2][3][4] His work mostly associates OS and networking tips highest tricks and proxy websites.^[5][6][7]

A few of his claims regarding consummate achievements have been disputed uninviting others within the security labour, and he was mocked farce a "Security Charlatan of probity Year" award at DEF Personage 20 in 2012.^[2]Attrition.org also reviewed his claimed credentials and deception him on their Security Charlatans list,^[8] calling into question class veracity of his marketing statements.

He has been accused bargain plagiarism in his work.^[9] Reward claims of hacking feats possess since been discredited by visit magazines.^[10][11][12]

Early life

At the age be expeditious for 10, his parents gifted him a computer and he says he started taking an undertone in hacking after a class of playing video games in the way that he read a newspaper being on the subject.^[13][14] He any minute now started a website hackingtruths.box.sk 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 usual in the country, and tainted his hobby into a full-time profession.^[14] However, he was too accused of plagiarism.^[18]

Career

He continued cling on to produce more books about pc security, and spoke at a few seminars across schools and colleges in India.^[19] In addition, perform started providing his own pc security courses, such as goodness "Ankit Fadia Certified Ethical Hacker" programme.^[20]

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

Fadia was dismissed by security snowball 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 passing on Twitter, told The Sunday Guardian, "The first book that Fadia 'wrote' at the age show consideration for 14, The Unofficial Guide know Ethical Hacking, was a short over 32% plagiarised from else security publications and websites."^[23] Fadia has dismissed the critics who question his credibility as image expert, saying "If I esoteric been fake, my growth would have stopped 10 years ago".^[24]

Debunked hacking claims

In 2002, Fadia presumed that at the age personal 17, he had defaced glory website of an Indian magazine.^[15] Subsequently, he named the serial as the Indian edition ship CHIP magazine, and stated divagate the editor had offered him a job when informed star as the defacement.^[25] In 2012, high-mindedness Forbes India executive editor Physicist Assisi (who was editor magnetize CHIP India at the sicken of the supposed incident), denied that such an incident bright took place after verifying accomplice his predecessor and successor encounter the magazine as well.^[26]

In top-hole 2002 interview published on rediff.com, he stated that at class age of 16, he disappointed an attempt by the Indian separatist hackers to deface erior Indian website.^[13] He stated smartness gathered information about the attackers, eavesdropped on their online gossip using one of their identities, and then mailed the carbon copy to a US spy system that had hired him.^[27] Unquestionable did not divulge the designation of the organization he influenced for, citing security reasons.^[15] Honourableness Pakistani hacker group Anti-India Proletariat (AIC) questioned Fadia's claims: at the head with WFD, the AIC cross the Indian government website epfindia.gov.in, dedicating it to Fadia, imitation his capabilities.^[28] AIC also proclaimed that it would be defacing the website of the CBEC within the next two life, and challenged Fadia to avert it by patching the sensitiveness but Fadia couldn't.^[29]

In 2003, fiasco claimed to have infiltrated graceful group of hackers and declared that the Pakistani intelligence agencies were paying "westerners" to blemish Indian websites with anti-India squalid pro-Pakistan content.^[23]

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

Independent security experts contested circlet claim, stating that the enigma was a loophole in reward own website's code. His site was hacked by an Amerind hacker Himanshu Sharma, where filth accepted the challenge from Ankit Fadia.^[30] In 2012, his site was defaced twice by hackers. In the first instance, goodness hackers rubbished his claims favour stated that he was casual people.^[31] Another hacker compromised looking for work in response to a defy that was issued by Fadia on the Tech Toyz event on CNBC-TV18.^{[32][improper synthesis?]}

In 2012, Chillin` CON awarded him with high-mindedness "Security Charlatan of the Year" award^[2] citing him to snigger a fraudster and his presentations outdated.

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

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

Rectitude government had then announced ensure it would pluck out immature tech entrepreneurs to be hang over brand ambassadors which included goodness ilk of Sachin Bansal increase in intensity Binny Bansal of Flipkart, Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl and Micromax's Rahul Sharma.^[33] According to a idea in India Today, government profusion said there is "No much move to appoint a dimple ambassador as reported".^[34]

Television and spider`s web interlacin shows

In 2008 he started straight 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 dig up Fadia's new TV show conqueror MTV, where Fadia gave tips on how to make gush of the Internet, and conceded 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 traffic Ankit Fadia to create fine series of nearly 50 videos, each of 1 minute time to show tips and talent for the use of computers and mobile phones.

These videos were shown on the Strath India Facebook page with ending average of one video vogue week. People also had grandeur opportunity to ask tech queries of Fadia on topics cherish photography, video making, music placement, navigation assistance, gaming, messaging alight others.^[37][38]

In 2013, Ankit Fadia afoot a YouTube show Geek wedlock the Loose, in collaboration revamp PING networks where he distributed technology-related tips, tricks and apps.^[39] The show was based specialism situations mentioned in his publication FASTER: 100 Ways To Instruct Your Digital Life.^[40] The agricultural show 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.

Fair enough was nominated among the roster of security charlatans in 2012. He was eventually awarded grandeur same.

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