{"id":2178,"date":"2003-10-07T21:46:32","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2003\/10\/07\/328\/"},"modified":"2003-10-07T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T21:46:32","slug":"328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2178","title":{"rendered":"328"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is facing another lawsuit, this time for all the <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3527363&#038;thesection=business&#038;thesubsection=technology&#038;thesecondsubsection=information%22\">flaws found in its software<\/a>.  The claim is based on the fact that the software is vulnerable, and when  Microsoft releases warnings and patches about these vulnerabilities, they&#8217;re so obscure and incomprehensible that it puts the ordinary user at a disadvantage while giving the hacker an advantage to obviously exploit the vulnerability.<br \/>\nThe lawsuit is seeking class action status, but what I find interesting is the end result.  Year after year it seems Micrsoft has been more interested in releasing newer versions of its software, and yet they&#8217;re less stable.  Granted, as the article points out, the software maker can&#8217;t be held completely responsible for other people&#8217;s malicious actions, but it should be penalized for its own negligence, and there&#8217;s no doubt that the company has been irresponsible with its products.  The new OS alone has so many security patches alone that it makes me wonder if perhaps they should have waited a year before releasing it.<br \/>\nIn a day and age when privacy and information are transmitted over wires, it&#8217;s important that the software that allows for such communication does not falter or isn&#8217;t hijacked by some virus, and thanks to Microsoft, that isn&#8217;t possible yet.  Not unless you have the latest patch installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is facing another lawsuit, this time for all the flaws found in its software. The claim is based on the fact that the software is vulnerable, and when Microsoft releases warnings and patches about these vulnerabilities, they&#8217;re so obscure and incomprehensible that it puts the ordinary user at a disadvantage while giving the hacker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}