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Comment by chris_wot | Hacker News Reader

I've got mixed feelings about Steve Gibson. He's clearly very, very smart. But he does tend to be a little overdramatic, and I recall him railing against raw sockets in Windows XP a number of years ago.

How good is his security advise?

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  http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

"While many of his claims are a bit outlandish or bold, few, if any, are demonstrably false."

I really like the way this website is written. (=

I like the one there that calls him a crackpot in 2006 for accusing the NSA of spying by exploiting Windows bugs.

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/gibson_wm...

That is an extremely misleading summary of the page you linked to; to start with, Jericho is at pains not to reject the idea that the USG uses Windows bugs to spy. Your comment might say more about your credibility than his, unfortunately.

It "might"? Does it or doesn't it?

I don't know what the circumstances of your comment were. Did you just not read it very carefully, or did you deliberately misstate it?

I originally wrote that your comment did say more about your credibility (&c &c), but edited it because I realized I didn't have any business attributing motive to what might have been a totally innocent error. Sorry about that.

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