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finally, XSS As A Service.

daveioon SQRL – Secure Quick Reliable Login

This can be instantly disregarded because Steve Gibson is a charlatan. He's got a history of getting things wrong as loudly as possible in order to generate reputation. http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

daveioon “Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch

Can't speak to targeted interference, but I can fetch the ISO and signature from the mirror he used, and verify it successfully.

output: https://gist.github.com/daveio/edac4aaee516cd6a408d5c8e763ce...

daveioon Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test

They're bits. SYN can be represented as 0x02, ACK can be represented as 0x10. 0x02 BITWISE-OR 0x10, ie SYN BITWISE-OR ACK or 'SYN-ACK' colloquially, is 0x12.

"in hexadecimal: 0x02, 0x12, 0x10".

daveioon Cryptography: why modes matter, and why 'encrypted' is not always 'unreadable'

Fair point, attributions modified.