{"id":43,"date":"2006-01-03T22:40:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T03:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=43"},"modified":"2006-01-03T22:40:27","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T03:40:27","slug":"take-care-not-to-visit-unfamiliar-web-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/01\/03\/take-care-not-to-visit-unfamiliar-web-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;take care not to visit unfamiliar Web sites&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/advisory\/912840.mspx\">Microsoft&rsquo;s advice regarding the latest Windows vulnerability<\/a> is so far removed from reality that it&#8217;s laughable:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Users should <b>take care not to visit unfamiliar or un-trusted Web sites<\/b> that could potentially host the malicious code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have they never seen a real user surf the web? The whole point of the web is that you can click on links which take you to previously unvisited, potentially interesting sites!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nActually the vulnerability itself is interesting too &ndash; opening an image is just about the most innocuous action I can think of. If something that basic can open my computer to malicious code then there&rsquo;s really no code in Windows that I can trust to be secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&rsquo;s advice regarding the latest Windows vulnerability is so far removed from reality that it&#8217;s laughable: Users should take care not to visit unfamiliar or un-trusted Web sites that could potentially host the malicious code. Have they never seen a real user surf the web? The whole point of the web is that you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky_things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}