Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1261-991207686-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 30 May 2001 00:29:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2733 invoked by uid 510); 30 May 2001 06:29:29 -0000 Received: from c9.egroups.com (208.50.99.230) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 06:29:29 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1261-991207686-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.52] by c9.egroups.com with NNFMP; 30 May 2001 07:28:07 -0000 X-Sender: r_v_p@yahoo.com X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 30 May 2001 07:28:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 23824 invoked from network); 30 May 2001 07:28:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 30 May 2001 07:28:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mk.egroups.com) (10.1.1.30) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 May 2001 07:28:05 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: r_v_p@yahoo.com Received: from [10.1.10.110] by mk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 30 May 2001 07:28:05 -0000 To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <9f27e3+6kj4@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 203.195.146.6 From: "Ravi V Prasad" <r_v_p@yahoo.com> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:28:03 -0000 Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] Hoax story on Indian cracker in Financial Express Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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...) ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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