{"id":1058,"date":"2005-09-01T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/01\/words-are-wonderful-things\/"},"modified":"2005-09-01T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T09:49:00","slug":"words-are-wonderful-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/01\/words-are-wonderful-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Words are wonderful things."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was amused this morning by a quote from a potentially serious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/08\/31\/spyware_writers_get_more_sophisticated\/\">article in The Register<\/a> from a Microsoft spokesman about a potential threat to Windows where a virus\/worm may hide itself in the registry due to a quirk in the way applications read it:-<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Our early analysis indicates that this attempt to bypass these features is not a software security vulnerability, but a function within the operating system that could be misused,&#8221; the company said in a statement. &#8220;Microsoft is reviewing the report to determine further details and whether there is any potential impact for customers and will provide appropriate customer guidance if necessary.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>OK, so, it&#8217;s not a security flaw, it&#8217;s feature which naughty people may use.. So, that&#8217;s OK then, obviously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was amused this morning by a quote from a potentially serious article in The Register from a Microsoft spokesman about a potential threat to Windows where a virus\/worm may hide itself in the registry due to a quirk in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/01\/words-are-wonderful-things\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-h4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}