{"id":337,"date":"2003-05-09T01:52:51","date_gmt":"2003-05-09T01:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=337"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:42:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:42:20","slug":"another-microoft-security-flaw-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Another Micro$oft security flaw?? Surprise!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering Microsoft&#8217;s overall record for quality and reliability, it&#8217;s not really surprising to read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/technology\/AP-Microsoft-Hackers.html?th\" Target=\"Offsite\"><i>New York Times<\/i> article<\/a> reporting that &#8220;Microsoft acknowledged a security flaw Thursday in its popular Internet Passport service that left 200 million consumer accounts vulnerable to hackers and thieves&#8221;.  It&#8217;s not even really surprising that Microsoft couldn&#8217;t find a hole that only took a customer four minutes to find after his account was repeatedly hacked.  But I guess I&#8217;m still not cynical enough, because I have to admit that I <b>was<\/b> surprised that there are actually 200 million people stupid enough to think it&#8217;s a good idea to trust Microsoft with their personal financial information. I think that would even surprise  P.T Barnum.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe good news is that the maximum fine could theoretically be 2.2 <b>trillion<\/b> dollars.  That might pay for Dubya&#8217;s tax cuts and wars, and even start to rebuild the surplus that he inherited from Clinton and promptly pissed away<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering Microsoft&#8217;s overall record for quality and reliability, it&#8217;s not really surprising to read a New York Times article reporting that &#8220;Microsoft acknowledged a security flaw Thursday in its popular Internet Passport service that left 200 million consumer accounts vulnerable to hackers and thieves&#8221;. It&#8217;s not even really surprising that Microsoft couldn&#8217;t find a hole&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=337\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Micro$oft security flaw?? Surprise!!!<\/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-337","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-5r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}