Anti Hacking Competition @ TECHNOMANIA -- Be There, March 5th and 6th , White House College, Satdobato

[AmitAg]

Its Simple. But still requires little common sense and somewhat
expertise.

Most of the FOSSians are expected to participate in it. It will be
conducted by Mr Swapan Purkait from IIT Kharagpur.

For demo questions visit , www.nettech.in at see binary pirates demo.
The clues for each questin is also there.

Be there !!!

www.technomania.com.np

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, AmitAg
<nepali.in...@gmail.com> wrote:
| Anti Hacking Competition ...
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Kindly refrain from posting such things, that too to a F/OSS mailing list!

There is nothing called 'Anti-hacking'. In the F/OSS circles, hacking
is considered an art, and hackers are programmers who pursue
programming with a great passion.

Also refer:

http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28programmer_subculture%29

http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2010-February/055261.html

SK

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Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com

[AmitAg]

Thank you for your info.

I did not know. Actually as per government of Nepal, the term '
Hacking' is and illegal. and so We put is as Anti- Hacking. Its
bascially Vulnerability Test. FOSS nepal group is a part of Organizing
Committe of Technomania 2010.

Please guide us in future also.
Thanking you.

Amit

[Dark Eye]

One question. Is this Nettech a Training Institute?

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[Lava Kafle]

Thanks Amit for the info.

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[Lava Kafle]

Hi Amit , thanks for ethical hacking exercise. I tried the no. 2 demo given in the site nettech.net.in  . later used many open source tracing tools, finally saw password in java script, and used it to get the congratulations for passing no. 2 .

After sometime I got this error because the javascript may not have been handled properly:

Not Found

The requested URL /bp/nologin.phphttp://nettech.net.in/bp/nologin.phphttp://nettech.net.in/bp/nologin.phphttp://nettech.net.in/bp/nologin.phphttp://nettech.net.in/bp/nologin.phphttp://nettech.net.in/bp/nologin.phphttp://nettech.net.in/bp/nologin.phphttp://nettech.net.in/bp/nologin.phphttp://nettech.net.in/bp/nologin.phphttp://nettech.net.in/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/4.4.9 Server at nettech.net.in Port 80

Please convey to the Admin of the site , and I could not again get to home page too.


thanks
Lava Kafle

[Ishwor Gurung]

Hi Amit,

I am not associated with FOSS Nepal in any administrative/evangelical
purpose; I am just a member and mailing list subscriber. However, I do
want to point out about what you had to say. I prefer opensource
programming over a closed one. Having said that, I agree with Shakthi
Kannan in that the term "Hacking" is referred to as an art, a passion
for developing code. "Cracking" is probably the derogatory term you're
after.

Although penetration testers today are referred to as hacker, the term
has only recently seen an upsurge (late 80's to today think). Prior to
that or around that period, hacking was considered part of a software
development skill which mere mortals would have to work hard to attend
to. It's connotation is still widely prevalent in commercial software
development and OSS circle around the world and using such word to
mean "cracking" has negative connotation towards what they do. Though
there's a catch - sometimes, they mean entirely different thing for
e.g., a "hackjob" - a quick and dirty solution to a problem etc. ;-)

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Ishwor Gurung
Key id:0xa98db35e
Key fingerprint:FBEF 0D69 6DE1 C72B A5A8 35FE 5A9B F3BB 4E5E 17B5

[_khAttAm_]

Lets not get into defining Hacking/Cracking. Of course it may be
offensive to old hackers that script-kiddies of today are referred to
as hackers. But, I think this discussion should be left to them.

On Feb 24, 4:51 pm, Ishwor Gurung <ishwor.gur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Amit,
>

[Ishwor Gurung]

Hi Khattam,

On 25 February 2010 15:20, _khAttAm_ <kha...@khattam.info> wrote:
> Lets not get into defining Hacking/Cracking. Of course it may be

I am not not defining the term. Google is such as wonderful search
engine ;-) Maybe you are the one that's _implying_ that I am defining
the term. You are clearly wrong sire.

> offensive to old hackers that script-kiddies of today are referred to
> as hackers. But, I think this discussion should be left to them.

Can you kindly expound on what you mean perhaps with a little bit more
word next time cause i don't really understand what you mean above :)

A few random thoughts:
Script-kiddies are very different compared to pentesters. Pentesters
are basically the people who perform vulnerability assessments of some
arbitrary service infrastructures; be it social vulnerability,
network, OS etc... To my understanding, they perform those tasks under
clear guidance and in accordance to the laws of jurisdiction or the
company they are assesing; On the other hand, script kiddies or
freeloaders are the ones who download and/or may patch few stuffs here
and ther; then do stuffs illegitimately. To that end, i believe you
are comparing two stuffs that are related only in that they are
involved with penetrating a network or breaking into things..

Coming to the point now, no i don't think it's not fine to label
hackers as "people who do nasty shit"; and yes it's shameful some
people follow blindly to the media's perception of who or who isn't
considered a 'hacker'; it's sad but it's true.