Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. Steve Gibson says that MSRT runs when restarting the computer: … And then it runs the next time you restart your machine This is not true, not only because MS says so (The version of the tool delivered by Microsoft Update and Windows Update runs…

Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. I have a good news for mister Gibson: SpinRite would actually work on the Mac with VMWare. Because although Macs are EFI based, the hardware emulated by VMWare uses the good old protocols, which means that as long as VMWare has the capability to mount…

Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. An other Security Now! episode, an other SpinRite story without mentioning backups. There are few explanations for this, none of which shed a very good light on Mr. Gibson: (a) he doesn’t care, (b) the flaws SpinRite repairs are not at all serious, so with…

I was listening to episode 103 of SecurityNow, and all in all it was a good episode. However one thing that baffled me (ok, maybe not so much because I didn’t have high expectations), is the fact that nowhere in the process did they ask about man-in-the-middle type attacks (although they mentioned it briefly when…

Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. The podcast kicks off again with a SpinRite story with no mention about the importance of backups and changing the failing drives, but I digress. Steve says: Now, you could be running through multiple layers onion routing, or any other kind of proxy server. So…

Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. This was an interview episode, so there is not much I can comment on. SpinRite appears again to save the day, again without the notification that backups are important and that a hard-drive which had a physical failure is very probable to fail completely in…

Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. Towards the start of the show Leo mentions that SSL certificates used by the sites to authenticate themselves to the users are single-factor. And this is true, however one has to add that there is nothing wrong with single-factor authentication as long as good security…

Read the reason for these posts. Read Steve Gibson’s response. Related to the SpinRite story (which are present in every episode): again, I don’t know WTF (pardon my language) people are doing with their computers, but in my 15 years of computer usage I never (knock on wood) had a hard-drive fail on me or…