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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.

"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. (=

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