{"id":1668,"date":"2003-08-28T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T03:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/28\/stay-away-from-ms\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:51:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:51:14","slug":"stay-away-from-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/28\/stay-away-from-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Stay away from MS&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Register, the Department of Homeland Security is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/?article=11249\" title=\"Microsoft software 'riddled with vulnerabilities', trade body claims\">urged to avoid using Microsoft products<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  THE US Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has urged the US Department of Homeland Security to avoid using Microsoft software.<\/p>\n<p>  The Washington based association, which represents members that generate over \\$300 billion, has issued an open letter to Tom Ridge, Secretary of the department, urging him to review his decision to choose Microsoft for its desktops and servers.<\/p>\n<p>  It claims that last week&#8217;s events relating to the Blaster and SoBig worms, have highlighted problems in cybersecurity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macbytes.com\/\" title=\"MacBytes\">MacBytes<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE US  Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has urged the US Department of Homeland Security to avoid using Microsoft software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}