{"id":281,"date":"2003-11-05T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=281"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:41:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:41:40","slug":"microsoft-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/09\/26\/tech\/main575412.shtml\" Target=\"Offsite\">&#36;5 million reward fund<\/a> to catch virus writers, kicked off by &#36;250,000 apiece for the SoBig and MSBlast creators.  I wonder if they considered whether it would be cheaper to just write better software that&#8217;s not susceptible to hacking by any bored teenager.  Naah &#8230; cleaning up Windows would probably cost way more than &#36;5 mil, and get less PR exposure.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced a &#36;5 million reward fund to catch virus writers, kicked off by &#36;250,000 apiece for the SoBig and MSBlast creators. I wonder if they considered whether it would be cheaper to just write better software that&#8217;s not susceptible to hacking by any bored teenager. Naah &#8230; cleaning up Windows would probably cost&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=281\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Rewards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-4x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}