The Spy in Your Server Room

CorinneI writes "Your business's private information may not be as safe as you think — especially when you take into account how many people pass through your office's revolving door on a daily basis. That's why many companies hire TraceSecurity employees to test the security of their systems — operations that usually involve TraceSecurity personnel talking their way into offices in order to gain access to server rooms and sensitive customer information. PC Magazine was invited along to cover a recent TraceSecurity operation."

Comments

Eh?

[ScorpFromHell]

Is this an ad or an article?

Re:Eh?

[blincoln]

Is this an ad or an article?

According to TraceSecurity, advertisements on Slashdot often masquerade as articles. That's why many Slashdot members hire TraceSecurity to validate their contents before reading them. This message brought to you by TraceSecurity: Tracing your Security so that you can be secure in the knowledge that your Security is Traced.

Slashvertisement!

[b96miata]

This summary could have conveyed all the necessary information quite easily and been just as valid by replacing "TraceSecurity" with the more generic "penetration testing company". Enjoy your plug guys!

Re:Slashvertisement!

[GroeFaZ]

I agree. TFA packaged the company's name 48 times in exactly as many mostly one-sentence paragraphs. Yes, I did count. PCMAG should disclose, did they ask that company for help in that report, or was it the other way around?

They must be good

[Sockatume]

They managed to walk right into the front page of Slashdot with no resistance whatsoever.

Sneakers

[underwhelm]

The article is ok... but the movie adaptation is a thrill ride!

Moderated -1 "Blatant advertising"

[Bagheera]

Penetration testers doing their job: Film at 11.

Seriously, while it's not an entirely bad article on a penetration test, this is nothing but a shameless plug.

Re:Moderated -1 "Blatant advertising"

[spun]

Penetration testers doing their job: Film at 11. Normally, CineMax doesn't show that type of film until after midnight...

CmdrTaco

[u38cg]

When you say you refuse to allow advertising masquerading as articles, I believe that's your intention, but really - what else is this?

Flame ON!

[nuzak]

Slashvertisement, in its most distilled form. I guess the "editorship" here wrenched their shoulders after patting themselves on the back during their tenth anniversary. So much for integrity.

Seriously, even though I know all too well how running something like slashdot is a lot harder than it looks, and how not everyone can be satisfied, and how quality sometimes has to come after candor, even after all that, I know deep down I actually could start something better than this dreck. But frankly, "social links" and blog aggregators are already out there, and I won't pour my money down the hole of recreating reddit, digg, or technorati.

This article shows precisely how slashdot is not only not journalism, it's not even a respectable blog. Slashdot occupies the medium precisely inbetween, known colloquially as "The Worst of Both Worlds." You should be ashamed . But I know you aren't.