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I've enabled mine since Steve Gibson said we should do it 2 weeks ago on Security Now.

• chris_wot 13y ago
  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?
  • jlgaddis 13y ago
    http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/
    • nopar8 13y ago
      "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. (=
    • jrockway 13y ago
      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_wmf_backdoor.html http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/gibson_wm...
      • tptacek 13y ago
        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.
        • jrockway 13y ago
          It "might"? Does it or doesn't it?
          • tptacek 13y ago
            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.