Oh PLEASE. Will someone please restrain this man's ego? How on earth has he managed to remain completely ignorant of DDoS attacks, teenage crackers, legions of compromised @Home windows machines, and all the rest, while running a web site that appears to sell some kind of Internet security software? The volume at which he trumpets his own cluelessness suggests that either he has no idea how obvious his dramatic revelations sound to people who've been even casually following tech news for a few months, or that the entire thing is a cynical attempt to impress people even less well informed than himself.

Gibson spends a couple dozen pages glamorizing a thoroughly mundane DDoS attack and thereby succeeds in making himself look like an ignorant self-important buffoon. If the turgid descriptions of the eeeevil scriptkidde underground, bombastic proclamations of imminent danger, and constant references to past exploits aren't annoying enough, the overwhelming use of silly layout tricks makes the entire thing seem ridiculous.

Steve Gibson is a man given to hyperbole and flim-flam. He makes up his own pseudo-jargon for terms that have already been given names. He sounds like he's offering up new goods when all he's doing is giving new names to old guff.

He has also endeavoured to build commercial ventures from the hype and FUD he generates. While some of what he says is most definitely true and is worth relating to the unsuspecting public, much of what he packages this truth in is speculation and confusion, and thus causes at least as much trouble as the original problem itself.