Oh yes, he has been around for long. But he lost a bit of credibility after his wolf-cry when he campaigned against the inclusion of raw-sockets in Windows XP, alleging hackers might use it.
He's definitely adamant about the ongoing exclusion of raw sockets on Windows and alleges malware would absolutely abuse it if it were available. He still talks about it once and a while and certainly does not regret that stance.
Responding to the public hysteria; they couldn't take their chances, they would have been crucified if even a single incident was reported, because they had "forewarning".
Steve Gibson did to raw-sockets what Jenny McCarthy did to vaccines.