Time and again, we receive rants against a whole lot of interesting personalities. We ignore it. Well that’s for simple reason, that like you, we too are emotional people and in general our tendency is to keep our world in positive light. The assumption for this tacky behavior is that people – like you and me – will behave responsibly, given that the choice exists and may be the law and logic are not in conflict.
Well don’t go too deep in to that subject, or you’ll not be able to come out. Seriously.
Ankit Fadia - The Ethical Hacker ..Or?
The idea is always to appreciate the work you all crazy stars, CXO’s and stars-to-be do day-in and day-out to make it happen. Like Dom Cobb (Leonardo Di’ Caprio in Inception) says “a positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time. We all yearn for reconciliation, for catharsis.”
But hey, the premise of such a persona is original work. Not plagiarism.
We received two instances of heavy plagiarism on account of Ankit Fadia, the MTV Youth Icon who has over 50,000 fans (Mostly children) on his Facebook official page – say thanks to his deal with MTV & other couple of great brands. Even though the question on his credibility probably wasn’t very surprising for the geeky readership of Pluggd.in the last time we wrote about his, ahem – mainstream media success.
But now attrition has described precisely over 30% plagiarism in his first book ‘Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking’ (ISBN 0333 93679 5) that he wrote at the age of fourteen. The quality of writing in that book has been questioned by many w.r.t the prodigy status enjoyed by the person.
Second instance is that of his (co-written with another guy named Manu Zacharia) latest book called ‘Network Intrusion Alert: An Ethical Hacking Guide to Intrusion Detection’ (ISBN 1598634143 and 9781598634143). The estimated plagiarism in the second book is above 90% !!! The errata describes line-by-line, pic-by-pic, chapter-by-chapter cut-copy paste undertaken to complete the book from sources as obscure as from the Oregon Department of Administration Services (DAS) Enterprise Information Strategy and Policy to the more commonly rich pools of knowledge like the Wikipedia.
Now the question is will you want your children to epitomize such a worker?
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there are some self-made great personalities.
and then there are media-made hyped up personalities.
real geeks and techies know where Mr.Fadia falls under.
time and again there is so much discussion about plagiarism, i am not a big fan of person who is the subject here and at the same time media itself which runs shows whose concepts are derived from other shows successful in other countries. but one should acknowledge the fact that they are hyped and given the importance they get for the fact that they generate value or success by doing what they are doing. there is no doubt that creativity and innovation should be the top priority, agreed. but what use is of innovation when it cant reach masses . its as simple as “Romeo Juliet in Shakespeare English” or “5 point some one ” which is a masterpiece and which goes well with masses ???
He is the biggest fraudster on in Indian tech scene. Idiots in MTV will never realize how stupid Ankit is and why he isn’t even a unethical hacker. Coz he has got really no talent whatsoever.
Thank goodness you dint publish a story gloryfying him and his exploits, i would have felt let down from PI. the time when he wrote the book, i was an active follower of all the websites from where he took the texts from. one glance at the book and i could tell where all he had copied it from. all i could do was marvel at the little bass-turd and ignorance of our society.
This whole country runs & excels on ignorance of the masses. People get elected because average voters are such. Large businesses gets built on slapstick advertising and cheating customers. Investors are cheated in stock markets..The list goes endless..
The good part: We collectively celebrate and venerate the same people who mislead us.
“We collectively celebrate and venerate the same people who mislead us.”
ROFL man …. whom r u talking about?
Well at this point of time, I feel pretty much the same about everyone in the top management of our country.
People have just sensationalized him. People(in general) should look beyond Ankit Fadia here.
I was one of those kids who bought his first book out of sheer curiosity when I hardly had access to dial up Internet. I had respect for him as one of the first and few hackers from India. It would have been decent had he acknowledged that all he did was collate information from other places instead of posing like the real author. Plagiarizing might have gone uncaught in the olden days, but even today? No no
I always used to believe that he is a real stuff with immense knowledge. But during all these years i have been disappointed. If he was actually a real hacker he would have helped universitiy students rather than to come up on MTV.
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hey, his goal is 100% copy. In next book , he will copy 100% from internet and will be more successful.
Here’s an ethical hack: http://www.themorgandoctrine.com/2011/01/righteous-hack-clearplay.html
I remember his first book very well.
It was totally ripped off from a great site called http://www.happyhacker.org/
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