Comments on: Macabre but hilarious… IIT Kanpur website hacked!

By: Akshay

Akshay — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:01:35 +0000

@Maneel
IITs are not supposed to be, they are elite institutions. Ofcourse, your personal opinion may differ but then it does not matter.
@h4ck3r.iNdIan
iitians do not manage the institute website.

By: h4ck3r.iNdIan

h4ck3r.iNdIan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:05:03 +0000

its really shame full for IITES brainer there ar really still in old stone age..i can only =)) =)) them___________________

By: Mayur Rustagi

Mayur Rustagi — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:46:04 +0000

http://mashable.com/2008/04/26/sql-attacks/
if US department of Homeland security along with hundreds of other US government servers can be hacked in one day and escape judgement by general public then how can somebody judge IIT K just on basis of a simple site hack

By: Nilesh Trivedi

Nilesh Trivedi — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:17:42 +0000

@ Maneel

“some sort of red tapism”

Oh yes. Lots of it. At a certain so called “elite” institute that I went to, any changes to website content must be approved by all of faculty. Result: after getting the new website content & design, it took 2 YEARS to approve the website.

Things are not so rosy at the “elite” institutes. What, you expected a government owned institution to be fast, agile, and responsive? They have built their reputation on the basis of a very competitive entrance exam, that’s all. There is nothing world-class about them.

By: I won't tell my name

I won't tell my name — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:48:09 +0000

some one hack nit jalandhar website please.
…..

By: Maneel

Maneel — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:44:39 +0000

It is embarassing, because IIT K is, or well, supposed to be the best technology institute in India. So, it is expected of them to maintain the highest standards possible.

I’ve observed this very often in India, that we don’t tend to give professionalism as much attention at the education level as we do in when we work for a tom-dick-harry company. And this has to change. IIT K’s website getting hacked, for me atleast puts a question mark on the credibility of whosoever manages the website (and I believe he/she does have a direct affect on what students learn). Imagine MIT.edu getting hacked, IMO, that would make newspaper headlines.

Vishal Kelkar : “Hey did anyone hear about the DDOS attack on Slideshare? I find it funny that the co-founder of this website is talking about hack attacks on other sitesâ€¦”

Ahh! Well, I don’t think you’ve the slightest idea of what DDOS is. DDOS has the least to do with security. DDOS just means a group of guys is eating your bandwidth and server resources in excess and the normal users are experiencing bandwidth related problems like slow loading of pages, or even unresponding servers!

Good post, Amit, but I think there is some sort of red tapism that still exists in government run institutes, cuz of which a little inefficiency (^^ website hacked) creeps in. Good luck with SShare though.

Maneel

By: websatan

websatan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:50:32 +0000

Yeah definitely funny, but calls for an immediate attention.