TOP TEN INDIAN HACKERS
1. Pranav Mistry :
The famed 6th sense developer,Pranav Mistry is a research assistant and a PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab. SixthSense has recently attracted global attention. Among some of his previous work, Pranav has invented Mouseless - an invisible computer mouse; intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located and can send reminders and messages; a pen that can draw in 3D; and a public map that can act as Google of physical world. Pranav has commercialized his invention, the sixth sense and SixthSense is now being actively used at NASA. It is rumored that Facebook tried to acquire the technology from Pranav for a reportedly $2 billion and 5% ownership of Facebook, but Pranav decided to open source it instead.
2. Koushik Dutta or “Koush”:
Koushik Dutta or “Koush” is responsible for Clockworkmod recovery and Rom Manager for Android rooting and the core member of famed UnrEVOked team. He has been a .net developer from heart and had his internship initially at Microsoft and is a former MVP. He decided to leave Microsoft and hack Android cellphones like there was no tomorrow. Sony approached him after geohot humped them like anything but he politely declined .
3.Vivek Ramchandran :
Vivek Ramachandran has been working in the computer and network security domain, in some form or the other, for the past 7 years and has worked with Industry giants like Reliance, Cisco, Microsoft. He was among the Top 10 Indian finalists in the Microsoft shootout competition among the list of 65000 participants. Then he decided to join Airtight Networks and there discovered Caffe Latte attack attack along with his colleague MD Sohail Ahmad from Airtight Networks ,the wifi hacking technique that doesn't required you to be in active vicinity of the wifi zone.
4.Hari Prasad :
The famed security researcher Hari Prasad is the winner of EFF Pioneer award, as he along with Alex Halderman, and Rop Gonggrijp were able to study an electronic voting machine (EVM) and found significant vulnerabilities that would not be difficult to execute. For his troubles, Prasad was arrested and jailed in August, held without bail in Mumbai for a week. Though he is now out on bail and in the United States, he still faces criminal prosecution for alleged theft of the EVM and other charges.
The genius of the Indian system is that instead of making machines tamper proof and more efficient, they arrested him.
5. Jayant Krishnamurthy :
Jayant Krishnamurthy is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, CMU and his interests include are machine learning, machine reading, common sense reasoning, information extraction, knowledge representation, and their applications in AI and NLP (shamelessly taken from his website). He is one of the researchers who are behind designing MD6 algorithm (yeah you heard it right, the evolution of MD5). He is a top level computer theorist and researcher and is a real life hacker. He teaches computer and network security and you must ahve a look at the problems and solutions at the given link.
For the lighter side,you can have a look at the funny flash movie based on his real life experiences at high school.
I guess, you now have an actual idea of the Indian hackers now :) These guys are real and are deemed worthy of having the hacker emblem with them.
6. Rahul Tyagi :
Aside from being an expert on breaking and entering computers Rahul Tyagi is also an author and a talented actor. With over a hundred training sessions under his belt this guy is as versatile as it gets.
7. Ankit Fadia :
Writing a book titled ‘Unofficial guide to ethical hacking’ at the age of 15 is a far cry from playing football at that tender age. And yet, that’s exactly what Fadia did, and the rest is history when it comes to this world-renowned Indian ethical hacker.
8. Trishneet Arora :
If you wanna know how it feels like to be 20 years old and world-renowned, ask Trishneet Arora. The dude is actually against hacking and helps companies and industries to protect their security systems.
9. Sunny Vaghela :
Vaghela was responsible for spotting loopholes in SMS and call forging in mobile network, that too when he was 18. To his credit, he has also helped Mumbai and Ahmedabad police solve terrorist threats.
10. Benild Joseph:
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