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by mike_d 1229 days ago
Please don't use unrelated posts to help peddle snake oil. https://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/
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Disgusting comment. Steve Gibson is a true and independent professional with hundreds upon hundreds of hours of great and accurate video podcast content. Even when he makes a tiny mistake he comes back the next week and thoroughly corrects himself. That post is ancient and largely invalid. On top of that SQRL is in public domain with a published spec/algorithm. Stop punching the old man.
There's nothing snake oil about SQRL. Can you back up your claims?
Literally none of those links mention SQRL.
They don't need to. He has been thoroughly and completely debunked for decades. Legitimate security researchers pay no attention to him, and neither should you.
Would you talk to someone like this in real life? If you jumped into a conversation being this needlessly on the attack against someone who just posted a link to a project with the same name, I can’t imagine wanting to converse with you at all. How wrong or right you are about Steve Gibson is irrelevant. The fact that after a couple Id replies you can’t point to why this snake oil is snake oil is just the icing on the cake.
None of those links do that either.