When newspapers are making the news, they often write about it in the third person, as if they were writing about any other newspaper. Symantec would not give t

When newspapers are making the news, they often write about it in the third person, as if they were writing about any other newspaper. Symantec would not give the NYT a quote on the record about this. It doesn't mean Symantec wouldn't give the NYT details off-the-record. The comment in the article was a response to a question from a reporter, not the Times' security chief. For instance a few weeks ago the Washington Post broke a story about how the Washington Post was considering a pay wall.