Hi Mastertech,
I never slander, and I think Steve Gibson is an integer guy. But I love the open discussion. I love to make up my own opinion about things. The best thing for that is to hear two sides of a story.
I never was the man that said, this is the truth, the full truth, and nothing but the truth, because simply said this cannot be in this world. It is just nearing the truth, completely besides the facts, and a large gray area in between.
The best to do is analyse an opinion for what it is worth, be open and fair enough to change one's point of view. That Steve Gibson is questioned as an authority, I heard for the first time here, and on the site of Ken Linton, but they had a dispute about vulnerabilities in the ZoneAlarm firewall packet filtering back round the turn of the century.
polonus