Adnan`s Crazy Blogging World

Today Javeria contacted me via Meebo chat interface on my blog and asked me to provide the link of Director’s statement which I discussed earlier in this post. I just told her that it was in main page but she didn’t find. I visited Khuda K Liye’s official site after making my last post about the topic and got surprised to know that there was no link at all! first I didn’t believe at all and thought that some changes have rearranged the link but found out that link was not there anymore. I had no clue to give her. I knew I did mention it on my previous post, the statement which was the base of my entire post rather the MOVIE. I knew that like her, other users would also come to me and ask the proof whether there was such statement by him or I made it up against him just because I don’t like him anymore? I also referred the statement of Jang but that couldn’t be considered credible and I knew that Pro Shoaib or I say Pro secular and liberal groups would come to me and accuse me that I made up myself since there is no such proof on website. I didn’t take the screen shot as I didn’t consider necessary neither I had expected that DIRECOT’s STATMENT could be changed! yes changed *grin*. Shoaib’s statement was really extreme and it really got proved when the site removed the link of his statement and comeup with another link ,named SYNOPSIS in which they just targeted 9/11 issue which was the REAL content of the movie which was polluted later after Junaid’s decision to quit the movie. What Synopsis says? read now:

I again paste the excerpt of his statement which I referred earlier as well:

One morning i was going through a newspaper and i saw my friend junaid jamshed’s interview in it. After looking at his new attire in the photograph that ace the article published in it. I could not stop myself from reading it. The more i read the more sad i felt. He had announced quiting music after being convinced that it was “haram”. It really shook me very badly. I have never believed that God could hate the two most beautiful things he has given to mankind…. Music and painting.why are these the two most beautiful things i felt that a confused man like junaid had no right to confuse thousands of his youthful followers. I had given him sixteen years of my life as a true friend and had played my role in his professional life to the best of my abilities. How could he throw away our sixteen years just like that without even consulting me? I felt that it was my duty to rectify the damage he had done to the already suffering society under the influence of fundamentalists. I thought that the need of the hour was to study the whole mindset which gave birth to such wrong notions about islam. I have no doubt in my mind that instead of taking the present age fourteen hundred years back we have to bring islam to the present age. The best service to islam today is to make it applicable to modern day requirements

The mentioned para was directly hitting Junaid Jamshed, also explains the motive of the movie. His extreme statement was not only disliked by me but many other fans as well. Even Junaid himself reacted when he was asked about the movie. I am just amazed that Junaid is still praising Shoaib. Atleast I couldn’t demonstrate so much patience or maybe I have not gone thru the process like him? Shoaib didn’t ask the money but how Shoaib returned everything is visible to entire world in form of Khuda K liye. tsk tsk.

Now I would like to tell how this evening I discovered the “hidden” link. Ever heard in urdu, Chor hamesha koi saboot chor jata hay? something like that happened this evening. When a lame mistake of Webmaster helped me to find out orignal link. Read below the entire masti bhari exercise!

Khair, I had no proof to tell others. I know a blog entry is not worthy enough to be told. I tried to search google cache but I couldn’t find the link because site was in Flash. I also didn’t know file name at all because main Flash movie name was in_the_name_of_god.swf. I actually have ZERO idea about flash thingie coz I am not a designer. I am rather a programmer and architect. I downloaded Teleport Pro,the offline browser but it also didn’t grab ALL the files since such grabbers work only after parsing URL links from page and the process recursively unless the condition gets true. The link was not given in any HTML file so offline tool got failed as well. My FireFox cache was also cleaned few days back. Once a friend of mine who is a good designer told me about Flash decompilers. I thought to give it a try. I applied reverse engineering, decompiled the main SWF file and went thru all objects. I found nothing, only images,buttons and frames. Then there was a tree node about scripts. I opened that and went thru each file. One of the file had an ActionScript command to navigate pages in Flash. And see what I found.Click the image to see the clear Image.

yep! I had found the actual FLASH file name which was embedded in the main SWF file. Now I tried to access the mentioned link and what I found? The culprit which was hidden by the webmaster. Since I am sure that it would be removed later therefore I made a copy of it and uploaded on a free server. If you run the file directly, something like that would appear on your browser. Click for enlarge view.
Enough Said! Before I say anything why it was done, I would like to comment on the “efficieny” of Webmaster. Was it me who was extraordinary smart or the webmaster was extraordinary dumb? Being a Pakistani IT person,specially a developer, I would go for second part because this is the most common and core weakness of developers,specially web developers that they always leave the old copies of their on production server. Even I have done it many times but I just realized today that How insecure and harmful it is! this is just about a movie. Sometimes we developers leave sensitive or vulnerable code files on production servers or just rename them by adding _ or 1 or 2 as prefix or suffix. Even I also tried that to find file name on main server of movie but my manual brute force technique didn’t work at all :-). So young developers or even seniors who have been reading this blog should learn a lesson and never leave a copy online on production server. There is nothing hidden in web world. Now the question is, why did he do that?? Was shoaib regretting or he realized that He really spoke TOO Much against Junaid and acted like an extremist which he himself dislike? Or was he afraid that people would start thinking negative about him or something else? I don’t want to give my own statement, I leave it upto you. Whatever I had to say about the statement I already mentioned on the related post. Just would like to add something which is said in Urdu, “Chor k Darhee mey Tinka”. Since Shoaib dislike Darhee and considers it a hurdle in progressive life, I would rather make it as Chor k kaan mey Tinka . :-). Jab Pyar kia tu darna kiya! When you think that you are on RIGHT path then why are you backing up? Truth is stronger and you are claiming that Ye film aap ko sochney par Majboor kardey gi. What ShoMAn wants us to think, you can read this article on Adil Najam’s blog, the agenda of US neocons and Jewish Lobby desi Liberals and seculars. Who knows they even change the SyNOPSIS link, I got a mirror copy of it as well. So enjoy this entire “TRUE” campaign by Shoaib Mansoor and Co. Why did I do all this? Well I already explained it plus it was an interesting evening hack, short but useful. I also learnt how to decompile Flash movies and export objects from it. :-). A masti Bhari Exercise

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Oh last but not least, the credit goes to Javeria who informed me about this *broken link* and gave me an excuse to write this blog entry as well as got chance to do an interesting evening hack about Flash and reverse engineering. Thanks! :>

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