Honestly, this kind of article bugs me because it does more to fan the flames of WordPress controversy than actually look for core issues. It's not about the technical underpinnings of what's happening, though it appears to be. It's really a bit of cheap armchair gamesmanship by taking superficial press releases and setting them up in a brawl.

I don't even think it's done with intentional malice, it's just the same kind of thing as you get from any sports commentator show where the talking about the drama of the game is the focus rather than the actual playing of the game.

A good article would be to actually understand and describe what a good security architecture of a shared host is, and how Network Solutions and WordPress need to be configured to meet that goal and where the actual failings happened. Interview the parties, asking probing questions of what the architecture is and why, rather than just bickering over some press releases (both of which are bad PR, IMO). Of course, to do that requires actually knowing what the best practices are so that the right questions can even be asked.