This may be of interest to the group members--a spat between Ankit Fadia and another self-proclaimed security expert...I wonder if we, as a community, should respond to this.

satish

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sudhakar Jaani mhm_777@dataone.in Date: Dec 17, 2006 12:46 PM Subject: I require your suggestion on the matter - Kalpesh Sharma, Information Security Expert, India. To: sbabu@ieee.org

Respected Sir, I am an Information Security Expert with more then 6 years experience in the field of Information Security. Before proceeding further, I would like to introduce myself and about my achievements. Recently, I proved LIVE ON-AIR on a reputed news channel of India, that India's all internet banking, internet shopping and internet trading websites of India have vulnerabilities. I proved this LIVE (on camera) right in front of 'IT' Minister Mr. Shakeel Ahmed, Technical and Legal Experts, Director of Indiabulls Securities LTD. (Share broking firm) and India's star editor and chairman of IndiaTV news namely Mr. Rajat Sharma. You may confirm about my expertise level by checking on (+91)9350593505(INDIA TV). In this LIVE and Exclusive Breaking news continuously till 24 hours I challenged and proved right in front of camera LIVE by hacking all bank websites, shopping, websites, trading websites of INDIA. This is the world's biggest ever Hacking proved challenge in legal way to help the Nation and with an intention to work for National Interest. I proved that as concerned to India's Information Security field not one or two or three but all internet banking websites, all internet trading and all internet shopping websites within India can be hacked. This was proved to be possible during my LIVE telecast on 3rd August 2006 recently. To know more about me, go through the below mentioned reference sources.

Now, coming to point I am in touch with you for a matter of Ankit Fadia. I need your valuable support and co-operation in this, so that we can save the citizens of our nation and other nations also, media peoples, publishers, government and non-government sectors as well as inform CBI, CIA and FBI that how this person is misusing your Honorable names by false comparisons and attachments with them. And the biggest exclusive and breaking news is that world's biggest encyclopedia wikipedia's two india administrators are behaving as if they are ankit fadia's relatives or near - dear ones. A very hot comment going between a wikipedia administrator and me on wikipedia articles mentioned on below pages. These nominated india administrators of wikipedia are also equally responsible for spoiling wikipedia reputation. Whereas I am trying to save the wikipedia which is world's biggest online encyclopedia.

He has spoiled prestigious names by falsely misguiding them. Some of them are:

1) Stanford University 2) President of India 3) Amazon 4) Wikipedia 5) Rediff.com 6) Similarly many others.

In short, you are a part of public and I am trying to do something for you. So Kindly please follow as much as you can from the below links below and give your suggestion and opinion on them: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976861802

http://www.gather.com/viewArticles.jsp?memberId=121822&nav=Namespace

http://www.gather.com/viewArticles.jsp?memberId=155782&nav=Namespace

Thanking you with hope of early reply,

Sincerely

Kalpesh Sharma Information Security Expert. Ahmedabad, India. Website: http://www.esnips.com/web/shriganesh33sBusinessFiles Blogsite: http://kalpeshsharma.wordpress.com and http://kalpeshsharma.blogspot.com Join ME: http://kalpeshsharma.gather.com (My Groupsite)

My Reference Sources:

1. http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Internet_Vs._Traditional_Banks-106678-1.html

2. http://knowyourbroker.blogspot.com/2006/08/online-trading-safety-debate-heat...

3. http://www.nabble.com/An-Important-Information---Please-go-through-it.-t2705...

4. http://www.gather.com/viewArticles.jsp?memberId=121822&nav=Namespace

5. http://www.gather.com/viewArticles.jsp?memberId=155782&nav=Namespace

6. http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-33274.html

7. http://www.indymedia.org/content/2006/11/849890.shtml

8. http://www.shvoong.com/science/423737-fullstop-e-system

9. http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?threadid=272872

10. http://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg33681.html

11. http://www.traderji.com/general-chit-chat/7564-kalpesh-indiatv.html

12. http://forum.janmat.tv/viewtopic.php?p=177&sid=20b608a3ea76ae9b25f2b80e5...

13. http://www.chiragmehta.info/chirag/2006/08/03/a-challenge-a-fullstop-on-e-sy...

14. http://parasthetux.gather.com/

15. http://groups.google.com/group/lug-indore/browse_frm/thread/abb5e98a751e6193

16. http://digg.com/security/Ankit_Fadia_Ethical_Hacker_A_Zero_byte_character

17. http://eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/72eabce4-d74c-4abf-b8a0-6f7ae4f476e8...

18. http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/defaultotherS.htm