Is Steve Gibson A Fraud ?

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by stuartbe

I think they are simple and nicely laid out.... No un needed code !

I can see your point though !

What do you think to his security testing tools ?

I'm with attrition.org, one of my favourite site's. I've never used anything from grc.com.

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by Bifta

The GRC Custom Hybrid NanoProbe Engine? Yeah .. *ahem*

I take it you dont think a lot of it m8 ?

Do you ever use it ?

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Bifta

The GRC Custom Hybrid NanoProbe Engine? Yeah .. *ahem*

I was being sarky..

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by scastle

I was being sarky..

Sorry, in which case, we agree

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by stuartbe

I take it you dont think a lot of it m8 ?

Do you ever use it ?

Er no, I don't think anyone in the known world apart from Steven Gibson does, most people prefer to use a real web server.

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by Bifta

Er no, I don't think anyone in the known world apart from Steven Gibson does, most people prefer to use a real web server.

Nope - I meant the security tests !

[Stuart]

Actually, the thing that worries me is the SpinRite program.

Now, totally ignoring the people I know who have lost data to this program, it still worries me. Why? It's a program that works directly on the structure of a disc, yet has been at version 5 since at least 1999. Disc technology has changed quite a bit since 1999.

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by stuartbe

Nope - I meant the security tests !

No, any security test that thinks a freshly installed copy of Xp running it's own inbuilt XP firewall is leak proof needs disassembling and recycling as a hentai game!

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by scastle

Actually, the thing that worries me is the SpinRite program.

Now, totally ignoring the people I know who have lost data to this program, it still worries me. Why? It's a program that works directly on the structure of a disc, yet has been at version 5 since at least 1999. Disc technology has changed quite a bit since 1999.

Thats very true !!!! Did try it once but I was a bit concerned that it needed dos to run and did not use its own OS.

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by Bifta

No, any security test that thinks a freshly installed copy of Xp running it's own inbuilt XP firewall is leak proof needs disassembling and recycling as a hentai game!

I have never used the leak test thingy myself....

What is it suposed to do ?

[Alan Waddington]

Steve's good at marketing himself, but in my opinion he's full of it.
Here's an example: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24189.html

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by Alan Waddington

Steve's good at marketing himself, but in my opinion he's full of it.
Here's an example: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24189.html

LOL - they dont think much of the system do they

[Stuart]

Did you all realise that Hackers worked out a way to use ShieldsUP! as a hacking tool? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/23033.html

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by scastle

Did you all realise that Hackers worked out a way to use ShieldsUP! as a hacking tool? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/23033.html

I read something about some dude using it to scan IP addresses of his choice, of course Gibson being a spacktard did nothing about it ....

[Gareth]

OK, my 2¢... I believe he is very clued up, but he's also a gob-shÃÃâ€*’ÂÂÂÂ*te. I think he's actually kinda dangerous because he becomes popular with the average PC user as he cleverly uses non-techie language to introduce techie terms. He's loved by certain media (Tech TV for example, but that's kinda a joke anyway) cause he's so opinionated - however check out the radio interview where he was on the same show as the guy from The Register. When he's up against someone who knows their stuff, he becomes an easy target

Oh, and I won't use his tools - even if they are free!