The Register is one of the last publications that you should trust to make claims about the quality of other news sources.
I've personally had them grossly misrepresent a technical writeup I'd posted online, and then completely ignore attempts to correct them.[1] I've heard similar accounts from other people who work in information security.
I don't even read their articles anymore. They're the IT equivalent of the National Enquirer, if you ask me.
[1] I'd written up a discovery about how (back in the early 2010s) Motorola phones sent and received sensitive data insecurely, including data related to any configured Exchange ActiveSync account. The Register claimed (in the headline as well as the article!) that the issue was related to Exchange, i.e. that Microsoft was partly responsible, when the issue was entirely limited to communication between the phones and Motorola's internet-facing APIs. Literally every other publication got it right, but The Register, a supposed tech news site, took it as a chance to dunk on Microsoft and wouldn't correct their claims.
I've personally had them grossly misrepresent a technical writeup I'd posted online, and then completely ignore attempts to correct them.[1] I've heard similar accounts from other people who work in information security.
I don't even read their articles anymore. They're the IT equivalent of the National Enquirer, if you ask me.
[1] I'd written up a discovery about how (back in the early 2010s) Motorola phones sent and received sensitive data insecurely, including data related to any configured Exchange ActiveSync account. The Register claimed (in the headline as well as the article!) that the issue was related to Exchange, i.e. that Microsoft was partly responsible, when the issue was entirely limited to communication between the phones and Motorola's internet-facing APIs. Literally every other publication got it right, but The Register, a supposed tech news site, took it as a chance to dunk on Microsoft and wouldn't correct their claims.