{"id":388,"date":"2005-01-07T18:50:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T22:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=388"},"modified":"2009-04-12T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:12:02","slug":"ie-flaw-threat-hits-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/01\/07\/ie-flaw-threat-hits-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"IE flaw threat hits the roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-1009_22-5517457.html?tag=nl.e589\">IE flaw threat hits the roof | Tech News on ZDNet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s a serious one. It doesn&#8217;t affect me (at home) because I use Windows 2000 &#8211; but it might affect me at work, although no one at my office will be affected because we all use Firefox. Ditto for everyone in my family who uses XP &#8211; I&#8217;ve switched them all to Firefox precisely because of problems like this.<\/p>\n<p>If you still use IE, <a href=\"http:\/\/getfirefox.com\">get Firefox now<\/a>. <em>Please<\/em>. You&#8217;ll be doing yourself a favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s a serious one. It doesn&#8217;t affect me (at home) because I use Windows 2000 &#8211; ditto for everyone in my family who uses XP &#8211; I&#8217;ve switched them all to Firefox precisely because of problems like this.<\/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-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-6g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1554,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/12\/17\/nows-the-time-to-switch-to-firefox\/","url_meta":{"origin":388,"position":0},"title":"Now&#8217;s the time to switch to Firefox","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A serious security flaw has been found in Internet Explorer - no big surprise there. 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