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Man /. Readers Completely Missed the Point

Comment comment by VnutZ on 30 March 2007

So I was cruising through the comments left on Slashdot after the article hit the front page. It's evident that a lot of the readers there breezed the article, missed the content and then made hollow conclusions about my conclusion. How do I know they didn't RTFA? Google Analytics reports the average time spent on the page was three minutes or less.

For the less astute, ADD or sensationalist IT folk:

  • the article was not designed to test security features
  • the article was not looking at just what services are on out-of-box
  • it was designed to test what binaries shipped "stock"
  • it was designed to show the patchwork vendor's did over time on the product
  • it was designed to illustrate how Mom & Pop haphazard use of an operating system will expose their computer
  • it was designed to link those exposures back to how 2006's malware activity was also driven (not just through e-mail and webhacks)
  • the OS's selected were the "most obvious" choices for non-obscure use
  • old versions of XP were tested because frankly, Vista didn't exist for consumers in '06 meaning it was still the flagship product
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