This information is rampant in the information security community, but not so much in the vendor community, as evidenced by your reference to the PC Magazine article.
So, your understanding seems to be based on a misreading of the title and assumptions based on that, rather than on reference to the actual content of the article.
Ms Blears' article in the Observer raised eyebrows over her YouTube reference and also a comment that all ministers had "a collective responsibility for the government's lamentable failure to get our message across".