{"id":705,"date":"2006-09-08T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T19:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=705"},"modified":"2006-09-08T12:39:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T19:39:18","slug":"friday-skewer-of-the-week-on-microsoft-breaches-and-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/friday-skewer-of-the-week-on-microsoft-breaches-and-drm\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Skewer of the week: on Microsoft, breaches and DRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft and FairUse4WM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/microsoft_and_f.html\">Schneier on Security: Microsoft and FairUse4WM<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If you really want to see Microsoft scramble to patch a hole in its software, don&#8217;t look to vulnerabilities that impact countless Internet Explorer users or give intruders control of thousands of Windows machines. Just crack Redmond&#8217;s DRM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bruce is right on the money with this post. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Being able to remove copy protection is a good thing for some users, and completely irrelevant for everyone else. No user is ever going to say: &#8220;Oh no. I can now play the music I bought for my computer in my car. I must install a patch so I can&#8217;t do that anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schneier on Security: Microsoft and FairUse4WM &#8220;If you really want to see Microsoft scramble to patch a hole in its software, don&#8217;t look to vulnerabilities that impact countless Internet Explorer users or give intruders control of thousands of Windows machines. Just crack Redmond&#8217;s DRM.&#8221; Bruce is right on the money with this post. &#8220;Being able<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-bn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}