Resolusi 2010?

2010 baru saja pergi, disambut dengan lembaran kehidupan baru di era 2011. Sebelumnya saya sudah membuat resolusi (semacam “goal” jangka-panjang) di tahun 2010 kemarin. Karenanya sekaranglah waktu yang tepat untuk merespon dan mengevaluasi apakah resolusi2 tersebut berjalan di tahun kemarin.

Let’s check it out!

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1. Masuk 10 Besar di Semester lima SMAN 17 Palembang [TERCAPAI]

Yah, meski terdengar susah2-mudah ternyata emang perlu perjuangan yang tidak sedikit untuk menggapainya. Overall I’ve done it!

2. Lulus Ujian Nasional dengan hasil yang memuaskan [TERCAPAI]

Hmm.. meski perbedaan soalnya jauh dengan soal2 USM/SNMPTN namun jika ga lulus UAN atau mendapat nilai kecil di UAN, ujian2 masuk perguruan tinggi lain2 itu akan menjadi percuma. Tapi dengan bantuan guru, orang tua, teman2 dan pastinya Allah SWT Alhamdulillah it’s so satisfying enough!

3. Diterima di STEI ITB [TERCAPAI]

Semestinya ga hanya STEI ITB saja yang menjadi target saya ketika masih “Masa-Galau” soal universitas. Pastinya dong, menyangkut masa depan gitu! Well, kemarin setelah ikhtiar se-maksimal mungkin.. akhirnya tujuan akhir saya untuk melanjutkan perjalanan-masadepan berhasil “terdampar” di STEI itb. Hope it will my best anyway, hehe. Amiiin!

4. Ikut tes Monbukagakusho dan lulus [GAGAL]

Dibilang gagal kayaknya juga kurang suitable sih, lebih tepatnya “tidak-diberi-kesempatan” untuk mencobanya.. mungkin. Kemarin ketika orang tua tau kalo saya lulus itb, mereka langsung tidak menyarankan saya untuk mencoba tes ini. Yahh, itb sih.. gimana ya?? Institut Terbaik Bangsa ding, makanya. :O However saya tetap ragu, meski saya mencobanya kemungkinan besar resolusi nomor 4 ini bakalan tertulis “gagal” juga deh kayaknya. Hahaha. lol.

5. Memperluas kosakata Bahasa Inggris [CUKUP Tercapai]

Kok ada “cukup” nya? Umm.. begitulah sih kenyataanya. Meski secara eksplisit saya terlihat lumayan bertambah kosakata Bahasa Inggrisnya, tapi implisit saya sadar itu masih jauh dari tercapai. Niat masih setengah2 untuk belajar Bahasa Inggris, effektifitas juga diganggu beberapa resisten masa2 kelabilan SMA. Yeah that was the fact though. I hope in this 2011 I can improve more anything about English. For grammar either of course! Ganbatte deh!

6. Terlibat di banyak kegiatan, organisasi atau komunitas [TERCAPAI]

Ini nih salah satu hal penting dalam “perubahan” diri saya tahun 2010 kemarin. Intinya adalah berubah yang dari “Ignorer”, “jobless”, “passivist”  menjadi “awarer”, “jobfull” and”activist”. Walaupun belum sepenuhnya effektif, at least passion untuk berubahnya itu sudah berhasil saya dapatkan. Dari perubahan polapikir, tingkah laku, sikap hingga tindakan yang dilakukan disetiap jarum-detik jam berputar 6 derajat dalam satu putaran. Semua itu membuat saya sudah berhasil cukup aktif di beberapa komunitas, organisasi dan kegiatan2.

7. Belajar nyetir [CUKUP tercapai]

Haha, satu lagi kata cukup muncul. Ini karena saya cuma belajarnya di sekitar lingkungan komplek rumah. Itupun misalnya keluar paling ga jauh2 amat. Belum dapat challenge yang berarti dah intinya. :p

8. Ikut perlombaan via-internet dan memenangkannya [TERCAPAI]

Ikut sih sering, tapi kalo “memenangkannya” itu yang jarang. Akan tetapi Alhamdulillah saya berhasil kemarin mendapat juara design logo via-online. Yah that’s satisfying enough to fulfill this 8th resolution though. Hehe

9. Pergi keluar negeri dengan beasiswa [GAGAL]

Ini nih yang buat saya paling kecewa. Kayaknya emang masih kurang doa dan atau mungkin memang belum takdir saya untuk berangkat keluar melalui scholarship. Mulai dari AFS, lomba essay, bahkan sampai apply CV untuk ikut conference masih belum ada yang nyangkut satupun. Tapi positif thinking aja deh. Berarti mungkin memang kemampuan saya belum mumpuni untuk keluar dan menghadapi dunia yang “jelas” membutuhkan preparation yang benar2 convenient sebagai bekal. But somehow, I never give up to try it again this year!

We need the process

10. Dapat 1500 lebih teman di FB [TERCAPAI]

Lol. This last resolution is kinda kidding one among others. Mengapa ga gitu, teman di FB dicari! “rofl-rofl”. Even sekarang malah gw sendiri yang kewalahan dengan banyaknya friend requests yang datang. #Lebay. Hahaha.

Well, overall dua Gagal dan lainnya Tercapai adalah sesuatu yang cukup patut dibanggakan sih (buat diri sendiri dulu tentunya). Meski itu masih jauh dari resolusi2 besar yang dibuat para figur2 inspirational saya, at least proses dalam setiap tangganya itu yang perlu diapresiasi besar__sebagai batu loncatan untuk melompat melewati dinding tinggi tantangan dan rintangan kedepannya. At last I just wanna say

“Have a better life  in 2011 for me, and you all together!”

 

Palembang, 1 Januari 2011

Muhammad Afif Izzatullah

Secure and Healthy Internet: Hacking Revealed

Technology

Well, actually it was my past event happened in August 28th 2010. I joined a free seminar entitles “Secure and Healthy Internet: Hacking Revealed” which is conducted by ATLAS ComLabs ITB. It was one of the chain events by ATLAS in the year 2010 which has the vision to give the Orientation, Technology, Service and Information system for the participant. Yap, it’s all about technology!

This seminar was free so we didn’t pay any expenses. That’s one of my reason why I wanted to join despite throwing out my other important schedules. This seminar was divided into 3 interesting parts, and each of them are really a must to be known especially for collegian who are taking School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (SEEI) itb like me.

The speakers in this seminar were:

1. Onno W Purbo (Indonesian Internet Sire)

2. Doni B.U. (Founder of Detik.com and internetsehat.org)

3. Gita Surya Wijaya (Education Program Manager)

The participants were from varieties status. General, students and collegians were the ones who came inside to listen and absorb every knowledge from the mouth of speaker. One of them whom accidentally I saw was from SMK plus Pratama Adi, one of the best vocational high school in Bandung. And furthermore the head of USDI Comlabs itb were also involved to enliven this huge IT seminar.

The first session was filled by Pak Doni B.U who greatly presented about healthy internet. From blocking the forbidden site for child until how to use internet wisely moreover using social networking like facebook or twitter. He shared some sites which were so useful related with healthy internet:

http://opensource.telkomspeedy.com/wiki/

or you could know more here:

http://internetsehat.org/

For the second session, Pak Ono [http://facebook.com/onno.w.purbo/] began to share some of his knowledge about “Hacking”. Though about hacking, he brought this case with sense of humor from him. Everyone in that room couldn’t stop laughing when he let fly funny words from his mouth. Lol.

Yet, behind them he was so serious when talking about hacking. He showed us how to hack one of computer server using backtrack software. “It is one of the freeware which could be grabbed here: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ by using Linux operating system. In addition he also shared how to hack windows’ password through here: http://www.sf.net/. Then, in order to make the participant became more interested, he brought 2 Laptops and showed how to do hack in front all of our eyes using backtrack. It was so admirably amazing, you know!

Pak Onno when presented hacking one of computer server

Hacking

And for the 3rd session was turn for Pak Gita Surya Wijaya explained about the future of IT. He told us how IT amended from year to years, what are such the great IT companies all over the world, the people behind that and anything which are related with IT. One of them he told about the quotes of the IT legend, here there are [in Indonesia Language]:

Google : “Kumpulan orang-orang berotak kiri terbanyak di dunia. Dan anda tidak boleh jahat”

Microsoft: “Banyak orang pintar tapi tidak cukup cerdas untuk masuk microsoft”

Apple: “Desainer lebih penting dari Engineer”

Intel: “Kita harus paranoid untuk memenangkan persaingan”

Facebook: “Kemungkinan facebook akan menggantikan email pada tahun 2014″

Cool is it?? These are still five quotes from the biggest IT legends in nowadays, not all. It truly inspired me. Therefore for the questions session, I tried to be more involved by giving a question. I asked:

As we know when we’re hacking, big probability we would be detected by the computer target through his “anti-hacking” software. Then the biggest risk our I.P address would be caught. What I want to ask is, How to do an “unnoticed hacking”, without being detected by the computer target of course? Thanks.

I went back to my chair after standing and giving that question. With sense of humor, Pak Onno directly answered:

That is impossible to be undetected by the computer target. If you want you could borrow your friends’ computer and do hacking through that. Lol. [with some of audience laughing]

Pak onno continued it.

Well, if you really don’t want yout IP address be found by the computer target, what you have to do is using intermediary computer. So you gotta hack one computer first, then you do hacking through that computer. Simple is it?

I just could silent and gaped heard Pak Onno talking about hacking 2 computers coincide easily. Well anyway let’s you think about that by yourself. Back to the seminar. After the question session, something beyond my minds came. The MC called the five people who gave questions before to the upper stage. And since it was one of the biggest seminar IT in ITB, so the questioner got the price each of them. And luckily I was the one who got one flash-disk and genuine “Norton Internet Security” for one year. What a chance! Alhamdulillah.