{"id":18,"date":"2003-02-06T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-06T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2003-02-06T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-06T14:15:00","slug":"in-defense-of-microsoftkinda-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2003\/02\/in-defense-of-microsoftkinda-a\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense of Microsoft&#8230;kinda A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/rss.com.com\/2100-1001-983578.html?type=pt&#038;part=rss&#038;tag=feed&#038;subj=news\">In defense of Microsoft&#8230;kinda<\/A><br \/>\nA Korean civic rights group may soon file a class-action suit against Microsoft because they feel Redmond did not go far enough in it&#8217;s efforts to patch the hole<br \/>\nin its SQL Server that was exploited by the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/rss.com.com\/2100-1001-982131.html\">Sapphire<\/A> worm recently. In defense of the beast, the hole was<br \/>\ndiscovered and a patch made available over a year ago.  It is up to sysadmins to ensure that they keep there servers patched and secured. (I&#8217;ll not mention the<br \/>\nfact that if you&#8217;re using MS products in the first place you&#8217;re already asking for security problems.)  Now, if they want to go after Bill &#038; Co. over Microsoft&#8217;s<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/01\/29\/1043534095219.html\">failure to secure their own servers<\/A>, well, then, be my guest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In defense of Microsoft&#8230;kinda A Korean civic rights group may soon file a class-action suit against Microsoft because they feel Redmond did not go far<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}