[antiRepublicrat]

Exactly how are companies supposed to have confidence in Ubuntu when they can let a completely preventable, totally dumb screw-up like this happen?

[N3WBI3]

Yup, this is awful press especially as it was completely preventable! (1) Make sure you get compatible hardware and (2) *never* use unencrypted network services

[Brujo]

Well, it's hardly fair to blame the distribution when it seems to have been mismanaged. Even the best security is still subject to (the failure of)the human element.

Not that I'm trying to make excuses, but this sort of press release could just have easily have had Microsoft, Apple, whatever, as the target.