[Baron Munchausen]

Since most people do not have firewalls and there's no way to use a hardware router with a dialup connection (unless you get the more expensive 'network modems' I guess) I think Gibson's instructions are quite useful for most people. Several 'big name' firewalls that have nothing to do with Steve Gibson default to stealth mode, so I doubt that he's completely alone in his opinion. And I really don't see why I should care what anyone probing ports on remote machines thinks of 'stealth' mode anyway.