Za one koje mrzi evo uvoda.
After Attrition.org [negation, shame, slander] did a good job at exposing self proclaimed security experts, media darlings, false claims spreaders and mass media manipulators such as Caroline Meinel and |JP|, they quit doing so.
Addendum: Attrition itself and their Errata page still is being maintained.
Yet another species of that sort arrived, it seems like it somehow evolved, mutated; this version has the name of "Steve Gibson" and tries to fool the world by means of trigger phrases, emotional manipulation, misinformation, misdirection, biased software reviews, defamation, libel and finally slander.
Steve Gibson often is referred to as being a "Security Expert", yet one has to see his appearances on *real* security boards/interviews/gatherings. Where was Steve Gibson at Defcon/BlackHat Conference ? Why doesn't he comment/ on Bugtraq or other Security Focus mailing lists ?
The answer is quite simple: he would get nailed down by arguments and facts from real security experts in less then a minute. These persons tend not to be very impressed by self-proclaimed Security Experts and his obfuscation of the real issues and intentions.
As you can read on his resume page, Gibson worked for years as a marketer "Gibson founded a proprietorship specializing in media advertising and public relations" , and that's what he is really good at.
Stating Patricia McNeill : "Gibson is masterful at stirring up an emotional response in the people who come to his site, and then manipulating these people into believing exactly what he wants them to. The tragedy is that these people come to him looking for facts and information, and come away thinking that they have found some! Gibson tries to present himself as a selfless source of public information, yet his entire site is full of emotional manipulation, misinformation, and misdirection. This man is nothing more that a self-promoting braggart."
Through the use of key words and trigger phrases the impression is left in the readers mind that these are indisputable facts when in actuality they are little more than Steve Gibson's own personal opinions pushed right into every readers face. It is a commonly used marketing technique which is also used by many political parties worldwide in the form of sound bytes. The impression of Gibson being a security expert is left on the readers mind simply because Gibson puts that impression there in the first place. If your peers consider you to be an expert then most other people will consider you as an expert. If you are a self proclaimed expert it only means you have a high opinion of yourself and a bloated ego.
Quote of the Month :
If I had my choice of things to do, I'd return to my theoretical work on data compression rather than enter the fray of Internet mania. It may be that I prefer working with and advancing "mature" technologies -- like hard disk storage and data compression -- rather than being part of the disease that over-marketing brings to technology.
' Steve Gibson
