I subscribe to several RSS feeds from Windows & IT Pro magazine. Generally, they have good stuff, like an article I ran across today, This is how it goes sometimes. The author, Brett Hill, described how a server was infected in a lab, and how that infection got onto the network when the server was moved from the lab into a production environment.
Carl Siechert and I are currently working on a revision of our book, Windows Security Inside Out, so this was very relevant, and I wanted to explore some more.
I clicked the author’s name, which led to a list of other articles and “a blog about thwarting hackers and resolving other security issues.” Sounds great, right? Unfortunately, you and I can’t read that blog unless we pay $5.95 for a one-month pass or buy a print subscription. That’s just dumb.
I like the Salon.com model. Make me click through a special page and see an ad to get to the content behind the paid firewall. But let me see it.
Sorry, Brett. I won’t be reading your blog, and I’m probably going to take your magazine off my list of subscribed feeds. Too bad.
Ed Bott 