{"id":547,"date":"2005-06-16T20:54:58","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T00:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=547"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:33:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:33:31","slug":"microsoft-asks-for-help-from-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/16\/microsoft-asks-for-help-from-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft asks for help from hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft asks for help from hackers | Tech News on ZDNet<\/a><\/p>\n

This is actually quite refreshing, in a way. For all the PR bullshit that usually comes out of Microsoft, they actually did something rather… edgy, I suppose you might say. It’s good to see them trying to drive the point of security home to their programmers & executives. Who knows? Maybe Windows really will<\/em> become more secure.<\/p>\n

We can only hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is actually quite refreshing, in a way. It’s good to see them trying to drive the point of security home to their programmers & executives. Who knows? Maybe Windows really will become more secure.<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-8P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1554,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/12\/17\/nows-the-time-to-switch-to-firefox\/","url_meta":{"origin":547,"position":0},"title":"Now’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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