• Hacking is a passion to look into loopholes of network security however countries like china,pakistan etc who encourages the fradulent activities, the curtailing of activities is just marely a screen of deception pulled on the forefront therefore unless legal course of action is implemented supported by UN, its not possible to curb, contrarily this activity shall enhance more.Let us watch and see.
  Shashikant Tandale
  SYTNETWORKS.COM Answered by SHASHIKANT TANDALE , Technical Advisor, Instrumentation/Scada/Control System/Telecom email Id: tanshash@gmail.com at Saipem | 26, Feb 2010 04:34 PM

• No, hacking is a malaise, it won't stop w/ or w/o govt sponsorship Answered by Naga Ravi , Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Research India Pvt. Ltd | 14, Feb 2010 06:55 PM

• no Answered by vijay kumar , Server Administrator at Infonet Solutions | 10, Feb 2010 05:29 PM

• yes it will decrease the hacking rate?
  its good for indian security. Answered by Vilas Gaikwad , faculty at Jetking Infotrain Limited | 10, Feb 2010 03:59 PM

• No.. Answered by snehasish chatterjee , Service Engineer at kaizen IT solution Pvt. ltd. | 10, Feb 2010 10:03 AM

• Very good Answered by magdy alwasif , UAE. Abu Dahbi at aljaber coin | 09, Feb 2010 11:08 PM

• Its and hogwash and just like ususal image of Chinese products-unreliable, use and throw- the hacking will not stop. In fact there are every chances that the hacking practice by Chinese will increase with increased pressure from Obama and other countries in bringing more chinese products to sanctions after China has hurt US the wrong way. Chinese are going to retaliate a big way and no wonder future wars will be waged in cyber space, and it will be an interesting fight for supremacy Answered by Prabhakar Srivastava , Director at Indo Western Tradelinks Limited | 09, Feb 2010 03:42 PM

• I think that it is almost 100% we can say that no one here thinks that this will make any difference and that they are showing us an illusion that they are doing something about it. Answered by Steven Taub , Project Lead at Wipro Technologies Ltd | 09, Feb 2010 09:33 AM

• Lets not jump to the conclusions as this might be just the illusion... Answered by Dhanesh Kumar , Program Manager at Wipro Technologies Ltd | 09, Feb 2010 05:59 AM

• Though it is a good step but things like this will work if they are done globally. In this world of piracy, people do double piracy. I m 100% sure that those nulled softwares available at this website for a fee can also be found on other website as user downloads them and upload to some other free website. Shutting down is not an option. educating the users is something which will cut down the piracy rate automatically. Answered by Parveen Yadav , Software Engineer at Step Into Web Software Pvt. Ltd. | 08, Feb 2010 10:52 PM

• I think if we can believe china's words, then there's a posibility for this. The main concern is the reliablility of their claims. Answered by Krishna Kumar , Systems Manager at Hypersec Technologies P.Ltd | 08, Feb 2010 08:48 PM

• Frankly, if the claim of China is true, there is a possibility that hacking rate going down in the short term. However it appears that China was using this a business, to provide tips for hackers for money. Depending on their own economic needs, I do suspect that such hacking tools will be opened by other names in near future. So, overall the hacking rate may remain the same if not grow. This may encourage other countries to follow the business model set by China. The world is large and there are many rogue states and elements. To conclude, this is just a blip in the hacking rate. Answered by Prabhu Prasad , Consultant at Self Employed | 08, Feb 2010 08:10 PM

• Usually this profession does not require any training. Some people are fond of doing it out of curiosity and they want to prove themselve big. Stopping it completely can not be dreamt.
  But in some cases they may help others to know the loop hole. Temporarily it may slow down but it will explode after few days. Answered by ramamanas panda , Consultant at Siemens Information Systems Ltd | 08, Feb 2010 07:53 PM

• This will only have a minor effect. It may slow it down slightly for a very short time but it's not going to last that long. Continued successful campaign against hacking will be the one that will really be effective on this matter. Answered by Basil Maypa , Web Developer at Self-employed | 08, Feb 2010 05:53 PM

• Sir, do you think that when we caught one Whale from a sea then we can save other fishes. Then I will tell You sir this is only one Hacker but we do not know how many Hacker working in the world and rest of the places. We can only say that we make slow of the speed of hacking for few days or it will not give any impact on hacking. Answered by uday pandit , fresher at not working | 08, Feb 2010 05:11 PM

• NO NO NO NO..............................................No way. this may starting. Answered by vijay kumar , Server Administrator at Infonet Solutions | 08, Feb 2010 04:11 PM

• Impact of closure should be proper question?
  No : closer wont effect those who are into this for longer years
  Yes: for those who are new will generate cautious effect but wont stop them to move. Answered by manoj dave , PROP at JAY INFOTECH | 08, Feb 2010 03:47 PM

• Well It difficult to shut down such Websites . this is one such we know of, what about the millions that already are live and on air. we can only control the hacking and not stop it completely. Answered by JOHN GEEVARGHESE , SYSTEM MANAGER at MAR THOMA SYRIAN CHURCH | 08, Feb 2010 03:26 PM

• Hacking can only be combated but you can't avoid them 100%. Technology beats Technology Answered by Venkataraman Swaminathan , Budget Controller at Emirates integrated Telecommunications company PJSC (DU) | 08, Feb 2010 02:54 PM

• Hacker doesn't need any formal training. With their hacking attitude they can manage themselvs.. Answered by Hari Haran , Country Manager - IT at Rentokil India Pvt Ltd | 08, Feb 2010 02:46 PM

• definately it should be shut down Answered by Sushil Singh , networking at PCS Technology Ltd | 08, Feb 2010 01:25 PM

• No,bcoz hacker do not want training. Answered by Rahul Patil , Lecturer at bvp | 08, Feb 2010 01:16 PM

• This is just to show the outside world that they are taking action...as long hacking is used as a strategy for the Chinese Govt to gain access to information no closing down will help ...this is like the pak govt promising to crack down on terrorism, while on the other hand they use it as a strategy to maintain their hold on Afghanistan and Kashmir Answered by Nilanjan Roy , Product Head at Times Business Solutions Limited | 08, Feb 2010 01:09 PM

• Not a Chance in Holy Hell! It will only provoke people to train in other means.
  
  Hacking is not a Profession for the mere Mortals. Its a skill and an Art.
  
  Whatever the case maybe, Training centers will erupt and offer them behind closed doors.
  
  Cheers!
  
  Anil Answered by ANIL MAHADEV , Solutions Architect / Technical Consultant at NA | 08, Feb 2010 01:08 PM

• BAN defective and insecure web browsers & other tools, automatically hacking rate will be impacted..... Answered by Pravin Dhayfule , Sr. Technical Writer at Core Projects & Technologies Limited | 08, Feb 2010 12:58 PM

• 
  No... for the following reasons:
  
  1) They shut down a website but it does not mean that they made a policy or act for punishment / prevention of such websites, organisations and members involved into such acts
  ...See More2) There is a huge difference between "Shiksha (Education)" & "Vidya (Far Sighted Wisdom) it must be noticed here that in fact, there is no synonym in english for Vidya". Shiksha alone can conspire, can destruct, can construct too... but It is only Vidya which motivates the doer only to act for the welfare, for a good cause towards the creation (The entire world & mankind)
  3) There are many agencies which can continue hacking for the fulfillment of their own interests and benefits. They are unlikely to stop hiring hackers for their purposes
  I have given only 3 reasons briefly.... for now Answered by Ashok Khurana , Network Administrator at NA | 08, Feb 2010 12:57 PM

• No, it wont. They will come up with new name and might operate outside China also .... Answered by Tejas Shah , Application Developer at IBM India Private Limited | 08, Feb 2010 12:56 PM

• NO. They stopped the institute, fine. But what about the 12000 member army?
  
  Secondly, since when did the hackers become dependent on such institutes
  
  Third: the beauty of internet, how much time does it take to re-organize as another virtual entity....
  
  Such acts at best can be described as Political stunts.... Answered by Samir Pawaskar , Project Manager at ictQATAR | 08, Feb 2010 12:44 PM

• Shutting down hacker training website doesnt mean it will stop hacking. Hackers need training or say just the basic to advanced information on how to hack and all the codes to crack the security systems. So, they can get it from internet by itself. Yes, there is some chances of sorting in numbers but one perfect code is enough to break into security, whether its designed by one person or many.
  
  China should also take more concerns to strong their security systems and hire the best hackers so that they work for them only and by this way hacker's activity will slow down. Stopping an institute is not the only option. Answered by Vishwa Prakash , Mr. at Inpata | 08, Feb 2010 12:32 PM

• I think China wanted to show the world that the govt was not having any hands in the Google fiasco. To show how much they are concerned with the situation, they want to show that they are going hard on hackers.
  
  Just blocking one website which was offering free training in hacking will not do any good. There are a lot of other sites, forums and communities for Black hat. It isn't possible to block each one of them.
  
  
  They need to have strict cyber law for preventing hacking and should ensure they they are able to catch them in the first place. Answered by Anish Alvoor | 08, Feb 2010 11:56 AM

• 
  I don't think so. Not to any significant extent, definitely not in the long term.
  
  1. It is only the amateur hackers who need hacker's resources from a website with a visible storefront. Hackers (more correctly, crackers) operate through underground networks or invisible networks. The closure of one hacker training website may have some temporary impact, but not a conclusive impact.
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  2. There are quite a few state sponsored hacker's training programs, set up and encouraged by Governments and Law and Order agencies for the wrong reasons. In India it is the Ankit Fadia's courses, gloablly it is the CEH and other courses, developed and offered for the benefit of Security professionals, but these courses are sometimes not careful about who they admit as students, and these courses unintentionally turn out to be breeding grounds for hackers.
  
  3. Some of the Security Measures turn out to be greater Security threats than the threats they are to guard against. Law and Order Agencies hack on a scale massive and incomparable to the hacking that takes place for small economic gains. The Law and Order 'Security experts' are bound to get the required training from state sponsored training agencies and they are never short of resources. Among them are some rogue insiders who would continue to be an unnoticed threat. Answered by Sivasubramanian Muthusamy , Chapter President at Internet Society India Chennai | 08, Feb 2010 11:55 AM

• Lets talk about two categories: "Expert Hackers" and "Hackers-in-the-making". Shutting down the training website, may be a laughing stock for the expert hackers, but it will certainly affect the ramp-up of the hackers-in-the-making. So in the short-term we would see a drop in the attempts from the n00bs. If this shut-down persists and the hacker community doesn't find more creative ways to propagate information (highly unlikely, which is why they are hackers in the first place) it would affect the quantity of attempts. However, the "quality" of a hack is not dependent on the stale training information available, but on the knowledge, experience, creativity and talent of the hacker, of the expert hacker, which this shut-down would ...See More hardly address. Answered by Jagmeet Singh Hanspal , Software Engineer at Juniper Networks India Pvt Ltd | 08, Feb 2010 11:54 AM

• I think at best it will temporarily slow it down but will quickly ramp up again to full strength. Hackers often share their experiences and tips with others in their profession, so shutting it down will probably only thwart those who were arrested.
  
  But those who they arrested, they better hope that God will protect them, because the Chinese will make a very bad example of them.
  
  Ultimately, this is probably a political stunt, attempting to show the world that "We are stopping them, you have nothing to worry about" Answered by Steven Taub , Project Lead at Wipro Technologies Ltd | 08, Feb 2010 11:49 AM

• I don't think show.A person is hacker by it own nature. Answered by Anil Sisodiya , Senior Software Engineer at Impetus Infotech (India) Pvt. Ltd | 08, Feb 2010 11:48 AM

• Personally, I believe this another stunt by the Chinese Authority to concrete their austerity over the issue and moreover it is not the case that the so called institute is the only prevailing Hacking Institute.
  
  Reagrds/Raunak. Answered by Raunak Jhawar , Analyst Programmer at Syntel Limited | 08, Feb 2010 11:47 AM

• I think this will give rise to more of hacking. Answered by Mohammed Shahid Hussain , Analyst at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt. Ltd | 08, Feb 2010 11:43 AM