Is Ankit Fadia fake Hacker?

[RAAAM]

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From my personal experience, I think so. Ankit Fadia came to my college some years back for a talk on ethical hacking. He challenged us that he could hack any gmail account if they log in from his computer. I was interested in hacking and I had some half baked knowledge on the various tools and techniques used by hackers. So I volunteered for the challenge and decided to use one of my e-mail address which had a password 'thisissohardtocrack' (just for the irony of it ). I logged in and he used a keylogger (which was not even hidden and could have been detected by any anti virus) and displayed my password to the audience. Everyone went "wow". I don't know anything about hacking. But even a person like me was able to spot that he din know that much. That brought me to a conclusion that he was a pretty shitty hacker and a con man.

[Ailment]

While the practice of using a keylogger on your own machine is a well-known technique for people that are somewhat knowledgeable in "hacking" or "cracking", it's still unknown to most of the population. While it's probably very basic to you, it can have the appearance of being something advanced to an audience that doesn't know a whole lot. The guy you are talking about is in fact a fraudster like most people know, but be appreciative over his social engineering skills, since he has been going at this for years. He even had shows that were dedicated to "hacking". While I personally think he's a dirtbag, I don't like that we undermine his very real skill of talking people into believing he is some sort of master hacker, while he's the equivalent of any HF user.

 

On the other hand though, however, I find it even worse when people bring him back up from the dead and give him more popularity than he deserves. He's been a fraud for a long time, and giving him even more publicity can have the opposite effect than what is desirable.

[TheBusinessMan]

He's the Tai Lopez of hacking.