{"id":596,"date":"2007-01-29T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T09:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/29\/why-we-need-hackers\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T15:01:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T09:31:39","slug":"why-we-need-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/29\/why-we-need-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we need hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Life would be easier<\/strong><\/em> if we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to patch our operating systems and apps.<strong> Patrick Gray<\/strong> explores the real reasons <strong>why updating is important.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It would be easier if <strong>hackers<\/strong>, who say they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re acting in the public interest by releasing information on the vulnerabilities they find, <strong>would just get real jobs<\/strong> and stop pointing out the weaknesses in our software, <em><strong>right? Wrong. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmagazine.com.au\/feature\/3204,why-we-need-hackers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SC Magazine<\/a> (29 Jan 2007)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life would be easier if we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to patch our operating systems and apps. Patrick Gray explores the real reasons why updating is important. It would be easier if hackers, who say they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re acting in the public interest by releasing information on the vulnerabilities they find, would just get real jobs and stop pointing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,15],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","tag-services--security","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}