Ankit Fadia gave suggestions to US Government past 9/11 attack

Unethical activities land one in trouble right? Wrong! Not if you are Ankit Fadia, India’s first and youngest ethical hacker. At the age of 13, he hacked the website of his favourite magazine CHIP and instead of being handed over to the cops, he was offered a job by the editor of the magazine.
“I was 13 then and I defaced the website and put up my photo on it. Later, I was worried about the consequences so I called up the editor and confessed to him. He took it well and offered me a job in his organisation. When I told him my age he said I could join them when I turn 18,” says Ankit.

It all started when he got a computer at the age of 10 and developed an interest in hacking and related issues. You can’t really penalise the boy if he is using his skill for a good cause. After the September 11 attacks, the U.S Government found some encrypted mails. The mails apparently had only pictures and no text accompanying them. “The pictures followed the steganography pattern where in photographs with embedded messages are used. I gave a few suggestions on decoding them. It was exciting as I was only 16 then. They usually never give any feedback as it is classified information but since I received a few projects even after that I feel I have been of use at some level,” smiles the 24-year-old.
Back home, he has also assisted Indian authorities when a Pakistani hacker group had defaced an Indian Government website. “I submitted a report for which I received threats,” he adds. In August 2008, Fadia was consulted by the Navi Mumbai Police Department to trace the terror email sent just before the Gujarat serial blasts. The baby-faced mastermind also feels that if there is another World War it will be through the Internet. “If a country’s networkis attacked it won’t be able to function,” he adds.
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Cracking BitLocker – Its no more safe now

One of the major features that, at least in Microsoft’s perspective, recommend Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise to customers is the ability to encrypt the hard drives via BitLocker, in order to safeguard data in the eventuality of computer theft, or access from unauthorized persons. Just a little over a month since the latest iteration of the Windows client has been made available for download, a third-party company revealed that it had produced the first commercially available crack for BitLocker Hard Drive Encryption. Passware indicates that customers in need of decrypting BitLocker Hard Drives in Windows 7, and with $795 to spare can turn to Passware Kit Forensic 9.5. According to Passware, version 9.5 of its password recovery, decryption, and evidence discovery software can “recover encryption keys for hard drives protected with BitLocker; recover passwords for PGP archives, virtual disks, and keyring files; and instantly resets Administrator passwords for Windows 7.” 
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4 Unique Science Project Ideas for a More Interesting Science Fair

Applying the human’s circulatory system to a car’s control-system design, making a snail’s mermaid necklace into a useful material, and using biotechnology as experimental product testers are some of the most unique project ideas for are a more interesting science fair project.

Interesting science fair projects require of having unique ideas to be able to catch interest and attention during science fairs. Developing a unique idea entails a lot of brainstorming about the general interest of people. Such unique idea should also be timely with the current concern of the society to draw attention. Examples of unique ideas for unique science fair projects are pointed out below:

Applying the human’s circulatory system to a car’s control-system design

When one would derive ideas from a technological genius like mother nature, it would likely result to a unique project. The latest technology provides complicated systems that can only be beneficial to a one sided degree. In relation to the demand of a more innovative control-system vehicles, an idea of understanding a person’s heartbeat would lead to a more efficient control-system designs among cars. The circulatory system has a variety of control schemes that enable a person to react for safety or survival. Applying this idea on a car’s control feature would promote safety and unique innovation. Introducing this ideas as an intial science fair project could be a unique starting point for the development of a more unique integrated designs that is generally demanded today.

Making a snail’s mermaid necklace into a useful material

Who would ever thought that a common snail called whelk could produce something useful? The snail’s gooey remains is called mermaid necklace. The discovery of mermaid necklace as a strong elastic substance had led to open possibilities of more scientific innovation. It has been proven that mermaid necklace from whelk snails have a strength compared to that of a plastic and are elastic as rubber. From these facts one could already think of limitless useful products and materials that can benefit from the mermaid necklace’s characteristics. Since the usefulness of mermaid necklace is not a common knowledge, products or materials made from these substance could be one of the most unique science fair project you could develop.

Using biotechnology for experimental product testing

Biotechnology has greatly reached advance innovation mostly for the development of human welfare. Biotechnological advancement have also gained popular criticisms and issues. While most pharmaceutical, chemical, and cosmetic companies used animals to test their products, it is most beneficial to develop biotechnological species as product tester in replacement for animals. Developing this species for the latter cause mentioned earlier would be for the common good. With this principle in mind, one could easily develop a unique scientific project topic for science fair projects that would surely catch the interest of animal rights advocates and pet lovers alike.

From this informative unique science fair project ideas you could surely have a lot of project topic in mind. Be sure that before proceeding to developing a topic, references and materials should be enough to be able to efficiently reach the project’s goal. With a little imagination, creating the most interesting science fair project would never be difficult.

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How To: Recover your lost Windows product key

Windows 7, Windows Vista and XP’s Logo and Information easily using the new OEM Logo Bitmap Browser and yeah shows your lost product key too. Bitmap Browser for images available on your PC for Original Manufacturers Information Customization in Windows 7 and Vista.



WinGuggle is a small application that can Set, Change and Backup your Original Equipment Manufacturer’s Information. It can also get your Windows 7/Vista/XP and Office Product Key for Backup easily. How? No Installation is needed, Just unzip the archive and launch the application.



Features:

1. Recover Windows 7/Vista/XP and Office Product Key (CD Key)
2. Change OEM Logo and Information Completely (Windows 7, Vista and XP)
3. Change Performance Information and Tools OEM Logo (Windows 7 and Vista)
4. Removing OEM Logo and Support Information in Windows 7/Vista/XP
5. Manual and Automatic Backup of OEM Logo and Information Settings
6. Reset to Default Restores the Original Settings
7. Your Anti-Virus will not give any alarm message

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Another utility that can do the same job is WINDOWS 7 KEY FINDER 

Windows 7 Key Finder is a free software to find a Windows Windows 7 Product key.
Whether your Windows 7 version is the Home version or the Ultimate, Windows 7 Key Finder will find the Windows 7 product key that you need or that you lost.
Do you need a Windows 7 product key right away? Time is running and you still did not find your Windows 7 product key?




Then Yes, Windows 7 Key Finder is the product key finder for you, is totally free, does not require any serial number to work, if you lost your Windows 7 product key then Windows 7 Key Finder will retrive your Windows Windows 7 Product key.
There is no additional software or advertisment in this free and clean tool.
Just download it and use it on your Windows Windows 7 operating system, to find a Windows 7 product key, to retrieve a lost product key and to get additional information about your Windows 7 operating system.
Since not only Windows 7 Key Finder can retrieve a lost product key but displays also a series of useful additional information about your machine.

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