Gibson is no security researcher (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2016-05-22 13:54 (#1EM3F) GRC has no "security researchers". It's practically a one-man operation, and Gibson is just a loud-mouthed twit with no security experience. He's been widely denounced by actual security experts. Just see the controversy around his Windows XP SOCK_RAW and WMF bug/Windows backdoor claims. And his most popular work, the "SpinRite" app, is just a load of snake-oil he's managed to con a decent number of people into paying for...The old grcsucks.com is gone, but there are still several sites dedicated to exposing his fraud, mistakes and lies over the years:http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/http://radsoft.net/news/roundups/grc/ Re: Gibson is no security researcher (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2016-06-06 14:08 (#1G9Q9) What do you think of https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm ? Re: Gibson is no security researcher (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2016-06-06 15:29 (#1G9YQ) Any idiot can do a random password generator, which is why you can find thousands of them. It's practically the next step after writing a "Hello World". Here's a quick random password generator for *nix: head -c 56 /dev/urandom | base64Over-hyping some trivial and mundane program is just what GRC always does.
Re: Gibson is no security researcher (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2016-06-06 14:08 (#1G9Q9) What do you think of https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm ? Re: Gibson is no security researcher (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2016-06-06 15:29 (#1G9YQ) Any idiot can do a random password generator, which is why you can find thousands of them. It's practically the next step after writing a "Hello World". Here's a quick random password generator for *nix: head -c 56 /dev/urandom | base64Over-hyping some trivial and mundane program is just what GRC always does.
Re: Gibson is no security researcher (Score: 1) by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2016-06-06 15:29 (#1G9YQ) Any idiot can do a random password generator, which is why you can find thousands of them. It's practically the next step after writing a "Hello World". Here's a quick random password generator for *nix: head -c 56 /dev/urandom | base64Over-hyping some trivial and mundane program is just what GRC always does.