{"id":298,"date":"2004-11-24T13:54:05","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T17:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=298"},"modified":"2009-04-12T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T22:53:45","slug":"who-profits-from-security-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/11\/24\/who-profits-from-security-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Profits from Security Holes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benedelman.org\/news\/111804-1.html\">Who Profits from Security Holes?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting article. This guy takes a stock WinXP system and goes to ONE web site (using Internet Explorer, of course) &#8211; and gets 16 unwanted, unauthorized programs installed on his computer. For me, this isn&#8217;t a problem (I don&#8217;t run WinXP at home, only at work, and I don&#8217;t use Internet Explorer), but for the average user (e.g. my customers, my family) it can be almost impossible to avoid this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article. This guy takes a stock WinXP system and goes to ONE web site (using Internet Explorer, of course) &#8211; and gets 16 unwanted, unauthorized programs installed on his computer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-4O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1027,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/01\/16\/bad-user-experience\/","url_meta":{"origin":298,"position":0},"title":"Bad User Experience","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"You may have heard of this new-fangled thing from Microsoft called Silverlight. 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