{"id":349,"date":"2003-10-15T22:53:24","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T01:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=349"},"modified":"2003-10-15T22:53:24","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T01:53:24","slug":"windows-securitybug-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Windows security\/bug fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> was checking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/security_bulletins\/20031015_windows.asp\">today&#8217;s recommended fixes<\/a> by Microsoft: a total of 5 fixes. Four of them are defined as &#8216;critical&#8217;. And guess what?\n<\/p>\n<p>Two of the issues have to do with ActiveX. It would be rather mean to say that this is (once again) a proof that ActiveX is totally out of ..um.. touch with today&#8217;s Internet world. Come to think of it, it actually is. Here&#8217;s a quote that pitted Java against ActiveX:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Java applets are sandboxed. To give one example, they cannot open an image file from a site other than the one where the applet came from.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even a fan of Java,  but for some kind of reason the argument above sounds like utter nonsense if you think of all the recent fixes to Explorer and Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking today&#8217;s recommended fixes by Microsoft: a total of 5 fixes. Four of them are defined as &#8216;critical&#8217;. And guess what? Two of the issues have to do with ActiveX. It would be rather mean to say that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=349\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}