[attrition] Sahil Khan - "Hackers and Crackers" 99.35% Plagiarized

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Sahil Khan - "Hackers and Crackers" 99.35% Plagiarized
Sat Mar 26 03:22:29 CDT 2011

"Hackers and Crackers" by Sahil Khan is yet another book on "hacking" by 
an "Indian whiz kid". Khan has been described as "the youngest ethical 
hacker and writer in world" (sic) and nicknamed "Indian Einstein". Syed 
Sujeel Ahmed of Islam Online said "What's even more amazing is the fact 
that this whiz kid is self taught and has never taken a computer class.". 
Despite the glowing reviews of his intelligence, Khan's first book has 
been entirely plagiarized from public sources and other books. The four 
sentences he includes as conclusions in a few places are hardly worth 
counting.

Worse, Khan is not able to recognize the difference between ASCII art 
depicting a computer chip and a segment of programming code. This 
demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding about computers and 
hacking. In the chapter on networking, he pastes from multiple sources 
injecting material specific to NetBSD without explanation. In some areas 
he removes the original copyright and replaces it with his name.

Hackers and Crackers
Sahil Khan
ISBN: 81-288-1793-0
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
Contact: sales at dpb.in / www.dpb.in
Edition: 2008
Sahil Khan contact: sahilkhan at thevoiceofindia.5u.com & 
sahilkhan14 at gmail.com

The Plagiarism

The following table details the portions of the book that were taken from 
other sources, making up % of the material. Information is included to 
distinguish not only plagiarized material, but also what was done in an 
attempt to obscure the original source (e.g., removing text or credit). 
This shows willful infringement of copyright and inexcusable plagiarism.

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