Return-Path: <sentto-279987-1267-991299820-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); Thu, 31 May 2001 02:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 29960 invoked by uid 510); 31 May 2001 08:04:35 -0000 Received: from mv.egroups.com (208.50.144.81) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 31 May 2001 08:04:35 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-1267-991299820-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.53] by mv.egroups.com with NNFMP; 31 May 2001 09:03:40 -0000 X-Sender: fastflyer28@yahoo.com X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 31 May 2001 09:03:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 71303 invoked from network); 31 May 2001 09:03:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 31 May 2001 09:03:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web14504.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.224.67) by mta3 with SMTP; 31 May 2001 09:03:39 -0000 Message-ID: <20010531090339.47336.qmail@web14504.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.78.116.88] by web14504.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 31 May 2001 02:03:39 PDT To: iwar@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <9f27e3+6kj4@eGroups.com> From: "c.b r" <fastflyer28@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: Thu, 31 May 2001 02:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [iwar] Hoax story on Indian cracker in Financial Express Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --- 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...) > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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