This child prodigy has left everyone in his school and surroundings amazed with his talent in developing mobile applications. The ten- year- old student has developed a website for his father’s hotel and made an application which helps messaging, making cartoon stickers of one’s face, sending pictures, videos much faster than even Whatsapp. It facilitates secret chatting and is completely secure since whosoever would try to hack this, his Internet Protocol (IP) address will be visible.
Tech savvy, Ashesh Arora, studying in Class V of Delhi Public School, is doing online Java language course at an age when the boys of his age not even know how to open most of the computer and mobile applications. He is already through with HTMl language used for making websites. Addressing a press conference at Press Club of Haridwar on Monday, Ashesh answered questions posed by various journalists.
“I used JDK software to make the application named Drike. Anyone can download this from Google Playstore. I registered at Google Play Developer Console by paying US 25 dollars in the beginning of this month,” said Ashesh.
When this correspondent asked him about when he started learning computers, Ashesh said: “My father taught me computer basics in my childhood only.”
His mother Sonia is a spokesperson at Devbhumi Deaf Association while his father Sandeep is general secretary of Rashtriya Vikalang Adhikar Evam Kartavya Manch.
Asked how he became interested in developing software and learnt the knack of hacking passwords, his mother said things had started when one day she had asked him if he could open the mobile of his brother Chintan.
“I wanted to know what my son was doing and with whom he was talking. Adesh started searching on Google and was soon ready with the solution. He made his own Phishing website and traced the password of his brother’s mobile by sending him some jokes to which he responded,” said Sonia.
This incident happened a year ago and now Ashesh has mastered this art of stealing passwords.
Notably, Phishing is a method to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
Telling about the plus points of his application, Ashesh says, “It gives immediate download facility like messenger. No time is wasted in notifications as in whatsapp. One can do secret chatting with friends. If many people start using it can even be popular like that of whatsapp.”
It is learnt that the school principal K C Pandey congratulated the boy on his work.