Hacker? • A hacker is not a criminal • Not a bad guy • Not a nasty loser who will “break into emails/cause financial loss” • In short... • What you know, is WRONG
From Oxford • “a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm; "true hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers"
Cracking stuff • Or cracking Facebook, Orkut, Gmail, Yahoo! or most other popular services • Do I have your attention? • The simple answer is... • YOU CAN NOT.
Cracking stuff • Are you thinking “Oh really now?” • What you see is not what it is • The answer lies in 3 points... • Cryptography • Social engineering
Cracking stuff • Albert Einstein once said... • “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.” • We know he was right :-)
HTBAH? • Learn the hacker attitude • The world has too many problems • No problem should be solved twice • Freedom is good • Learn how to ask questions on anything and everything • Attitude is NOT A SUBSTITUTE for competence
HTBAH? • Learn how to write code. Real code. • Read real code. Improve it. • Learn how to use Linux/UNIX/BSD • Learn how to use the Internet • Learn how to write proper English
whoami • http://pratul.in • ex-Google Summer of Code intern • Open source contributor • Code runs on 4000+ websites • And the usual... • http://www.google.com/search?q=pratul+kalia