Hack Your Mind Now HYMN
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4000
a day 170 every hour
to quantify a near concentrate there is
a habitat
every 21 seconds which means there was
probably one
since i got speaking now what that means
to you
is assuming everyone here has an email
address
and the same stats all true this year
16 of us in this very room will have
their personal information
including credit type details exposed by
valentines
this year and that’s five days from now
i remember the day my email id got
hacked
it was march 10th roughly a decade ago
i got so excited about hacking that
first
i thought myself and then soon after i
started teaching
asking yes you heard it right i actually
taught how to
well ethical hacking to corporates
to institutions like indian military
academy the cbi
and also ran certified hack workshops
for students when i was in college
you may want to know why i did that the
answer is
this i wanted to build an army
of protectors cyber security experts
that’s a hard job because as a hacker i
need to find
one way to get it but as a protector
i need to exploit many ways that the
hacker can think of
so for me i just wanted to do some fence
building
now the skills for both the hacker
and the protector are the same you can
choose
to use a gun to harm or to safe
it’s the intent that defines the color
of your heart
in fact i did some white hat hacking at
nsl colombia
and microsoft at their headquarters
in the united states now coming back to
hackers and protectors one other thing
that’s common between them
is the rush that they feel the high
the sense of excitement
now one can hack into an email id
send an email from any email account to
anyone
it could be jeff bezos bill gates
they could be personally writing to you
in reality it may not be them
but it can reflect their email address
same with mobile phones
one can hack into a call and choose
a number or a name that will flash on
your phone
now it gets very interesting when you
look at ib cameras ip devices
with basically surveillance you can look
at a footage
from an apartment a parking area
a coffee shop or even an airport
now that’s me in a hoodie i don’t like
to wear much hoodies
but i also don’t do much of
black hat hacking and i don’t even have
black hats
so today if i see some booty
in the crowd if i see some excitement i
may be tempted to do a
demo for you guys
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what i will do is i will start with
showing you something
on the screen which will be some pre
cameras that i did last night which i
was busy i’m
facing some issues with the network
packets here so i don’t have the right
footage
but it will get the point across
so this is a camera that i got that
is from an apartment 641
that’s useful then there is a parking
garage
that i was talking about
you have multiple road views
this is the street view of a place
the reason i chose to show this camera
because when i hacked into it there was
a party going on
looks like people have left this is a
forest
i also actually had to do some of the
icloud photographs of people
which i can probably go to one image
okay so this is a lab experiment going
on
wow a beautiful view i like to ski as
well
and this is an airport hopefully you’ve
not heard the name of the airport
and i wanted to keep it that way you can
even have controls
and actually use there’s a wall block
but this is something that i did uh
before how about we get into a live hack
who’s interested in live hack
okay so for this one i will need two
volunteers
with a mobile phone you’d be safe guys
two volunteers please please if you can
come on this
stage anything works
absolutely not
okay for this one i might even want to
wear my black hat
okay so the way it will work is uh i
will disconnect
my presentation and uh do we have my
culture
sorry clipboards would work okay so i
want you to write
your number on the clipboards
your own phone number
absolutely not i will not review your
phone numbers
i’ll just keep them with me great
thank you
so whose phone is charged do you have
your phones here yes why don’t you take
your phones
so that i’m not touching your phone
and let me take a pic or at least i can
choose do you want me to call you what
do you want to receive a call
any preference we can just make the
random
okay so i’ll call you and i’ll use your
number
does that sound exciting wonderful so
if you can take the center stage for the
mean time i will just
get on to some hacking
this takes some time so guys just be
patient with me
okay
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so looks like you guys notice what
happened here
i was actually able to call a person
here
who i don’t know from a number
that i just got from from somebody right
here
right it’s it’s definitely a jackpot
for the guys in jantara they can
actually
call you from your bank number
and help in their social engineering
attack
to make their call more credible i just
learned on my way here
that there was a staff member in in this
campus
who had this call and was hacked
i was i was not trying to name you but
yes this this is real right
so imagine for a second hacking into
data
or systems that are high on security
high on privacy high on
sensitivity and high on stakes
it’s like having a superpower now
imagine for a minute you have this
supermarket
what would you do would you
add your name to the student database of
your favorite university
or go through the traditionally long
application process
i have been part of tg staff at harvard
across many departments computer science
management
psychology therefore i see students
across all countries and ages
some come with very well developed
moral compass unfortunately some
also given to the temptations now i want
to
take a minute to emphasize how important
this is
this this right here the skill
for you to be able to actually walk the
right road
you have to have a sense of right and
wrong very well developed
because it’s important you’re walking a
very tight
rope any slippage can be very
dangerous now through my journey
i have discovered many superpowers i
would want
to share all of this with you on
how a hacker’s mind is conditioned and
how
you can benefit and reprogram your
thinking
to change your life like i did to
progress my
now hacker’s mind teaches us
to be incredibly focused because for
them
everything is a challenge i still
remember applying to grad school
and i went up to my counselor and said
hey what all universities can you give
me and she gave me a list of
universities
that was not necessarily exciting or i
wanted to go in
but was based on my then profile
i was upset but more importantly i
looked at it
as a challenge what i did was i went to
the head counselor
and told her exactly this please don’t
tell me
what i can get into tell me
how i can get into where i want to go
so as a devoted hacker completely
focused
i listened to everything that she
advised me to do
i wrote articles completed multiple
certificate courses and wrote research
papers
so much so that i remember going up to
her
one month before the deadline and say
what next
repeatedly and just to give it to a man
maggie
she said go write a book
guess what i made sure my applications
did not
go without me having as an author book
chatting with gmail labs i was 22 back
then
now as a hacker phrase is like it seems
difficult
is music to yours then whether it is
getting into an ivy university by
upgrading your profile
or being the skate player giving your
best shot on the court
with few minutes left and being a game
changer
or even things like losing weight
23 kgs in five months
seemingly difficult task become
achievable
the point is i knew what i wanted and
did not
rest until i got it for hackers
there is no concept of failure because
failure
is not an option it’s only revisions for
them
it’s not if they get it it’s only
where they get it hackers
also love experimenting they don’t
travel
the regular road they like to go
off-road they don’t travel
traditional set parts
i remember getting my dev internship
offer from amazon
and i wanted a revision i wanted to be a
tpm intern
instead now amazon did not have a dpm
intern ever my hacker
mindset belief in the thought that just
because
something has not been done before that
does not mean
it can’t be done that i
walked up to my recruiter series of
discussions
and finally i was the first
ppm intern at amazon i truly
lived there slogan work hard
have fun make history and for you guys
it’s a great
deal to live by work hard have fun
and make history now hackers are also
credited
for being able to seamlessly bring
dynamic shifts into their thinking
patterns
they love to run parallel threads
multitask
easily switch contests and find ways to
be more
efficient this is me on a treadmill
notice i
got my laptop on a treadmill and then i
got
an under text treadmill in my office
below my laptops
using randy porsche’s terminology
these are some of my great fake learning
i would want you to look out for those
and benefit from it like a true
hacker now hacking is often associated
with
an unauthorized access to take control
over
systems or computer networks ethical
hacking is about
finding vulnerabilities and weaknesses
in target systems
for good reasons so today i encourage
you all
to think of vulnerabilities and gaps in
your goals
and dreams and then think of challenges
be it health
be it time management get lack of
motivation
and set out to have hack into the source
code
of these challenges and write an
algorithm for breaking into them
and in the process have an algorithm for
success
get that rush of achievement
and live a healthy happier
and a more beautiful life make hacking a
way
of life and also not just problem solved
but just
go beyond and be solution finders too we
have seen some great minds
founding companies like facebook tesla
twitter and they are sometimes also
referred as hackers
i want all of you to be hackers
i mean that’s a dangerous thing to say
but i qualify
by saying i want all of you to be
hackers
and harness that super power in you
because
all of us have that things happen in us
all of us
have a different superpower in us
if you have a hammer everything starts
to appear like a nail
that can be happening so guys need it
hack your mind now wonder why i
aggravated
my topic as in
well the word him means a song of praise
it is typically addressed to an id they
say
what god has made of you is his gift to
you
and what you make of yourself is your
gift to god
what better thing than making our life a
beautiful gift
hacking your mind will help you do
exactly that
because to master your mind is to master
your life
signing off my name is gundeep and i
urge
you to hack now little by little
every day ethically hack
thank you all
you