Re: [iwar] Hoax story on Indian cracker in Financial Express

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  These kind of actions makes me mad, because the
average computer user will finds enough truth in it to
buy the entire hoax.  


regards,
beth russell


















--- Ravi V Prasad <r_v_p@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This article, front page of the Financial Express of
> Sunday, 27 May 2001, seems to be a hoax. The
> reporter
> seems to have been taken in and duped. I just don't
> believe a single word of it. 
> 
> True Indian was the hoaxer who fraudulently claimed
> to have cracked 
> into the website of the government of Pakistan which
> he claimed was 
> www.pakgov.org. This was totally false. He had
> registered the domain 
> www.pakgov.org and put up bogus material. The actual
> Pakistan 
> government site is www.pak.gov.pk
> 
> There was a similar doubtful article carried on
> http://www.india.com 
> which also appeared to be a hoax.
> 
> I plan to write to the editor of the Financial
> Express about it.
> 
> Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad
> 
> 
>
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe20010527/main5.html
> 
> =======================
> 
> 
>
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe20010527/main5.html
> 
> Hurrah for the True Indian! 
> 
> THE TECHNO WHIZ has set up a forum against G-FORCE,
> agroup that 
> 
> defaces Indian sites
> 
> Bella Jaisinghani
> 
> For once, the True Indian scores. A Mumbai-based
> youthis giving anti-
> Indian groups operating from Pakistan a dose of
> theirown medicine. 
> Using the pseudonym of `True Indian', the
> 28-year-oldweb security 
> consultant for several American companies has
> hijackedthe website of 
> the terrorist organisation, Lashkar-e-Toiba, and
> isplanning attacks 
> on other sites in the near future.
> Introducing the hack with a bold `Mera Bharat
> Mahan',he proclaims 
> that Lashkar-e-toiba.org was defaced because it
> boreinflammatory 
> details about India and Kashmir.
> Now, the organisation's home page offers links to
> theIndian Army 
> website and to newspaper reports that document
> thedastardly deeds of 
> the Lashkar. It also provides a sample of
> themalicious anti-India 
> and anti-Hindu propaganda that the
> organisationconducts. True Indian 
> says what he has uploaded is just the tip of
> theiceberg. "Most of 
> the other material which I got from the site when
> Ihacked it is in 
> Urdu," he explains.The techno whiz has set up a
> forum against G-
> Force, a
> Pakistani group of hackers that defaces Indian
> sites, and is actively
> supported by the Pakistani government. He says he
> has made it 
> hismission to 
> counter them with whatever resources he can garner.
> His previous feat of hijacking the
> Pakistangovernment's official 
> website, Pakgov.org, won praise from patriotic
> Indiansall over the 
> world. However, he faced scepticism from some
> quartersabout the 
> authenticity of that hack. So True Indian has
> decidedhe will not 
> entertain technical queries this time, for
> his"mission is to enthuse 
> patriotism and not a technical debate".
> But he does explain that he has used a method
> calledDNS hijacking to 
> deface Lashkar-e-toiba.org. "A lot of people
> haveasked me for 
> technical details. Recently, Wired News ran an
> articlesaying someone 
> had hijacked a number of domains in the
> NetworkSolutions database 
> using e-mail spoofing. At first, I thought this had
> tobe a joke. But 
> after thinking about it, I realised that it is no
> jokeat all, and in 
> fact, quite easy to do."It all began during a
> routine visit to the 
> local cyber
> cafe. "I walked in one afternoon in December 2000,
> and was toldthat 
> Zeetv.com 
> had been hacked. I checked the site. It was then
> thatI decided to 
> hack a Pakistani website in return. The
> motivationbehind it was to 
> use my technical expertise for the sake of
> thecountry." And once he 
> did so, he received overwhelming support from
> Indiansall over the 
> world. "I received around one lakh e-mails, of
> which80 per cent 
> expressed support and wished me good luck. So I
> wasmotivated 
> further. It made me decide to hack more
> (Pakistani)sites, because I 
> came to understand that many other Indian websites
> hadbeen defaced 
> by Pakistani hackers," he informs us. Was he at
> allafraid of 
> breaking the law, and more importantly, of
> incurringthe wrath of the 
> Lashkar-e-Toiba? "Well, I am feeling guilty for
> beingon the wrong 
> side of the law. But I was not worried about
> theLashkar. 
> Incidentally, they have threatened that they
> willtrace me down 
> within a month and kill me," he says calmly. 
> It must be said here that the Indian government
> hasnot offered any 
> security or support to True Indian. Nor has the
> CBIreacted. Making 
> up for all that, however, is the phenomenal
> responsethat continues 
> to pour in from Indians all over the world.
> "The feedback mostly goes, `We are proud of you,
> keepit up, deface 
> more sites'! People write, `Do not hesitate to ask
> forany kind of 
> help, we are all there with you'," he says. As
> before,True Indian is 
> enthused by the response and plans to deface
> twopro-Pakistani sites 
> within the next three weeks. More power to him!
> (True Indian can be e-mailed at: antigforce@y...) 
> 
> 


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