{"id":8100,"date":"2013-04-17T10:01:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2013-04-17T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:01:37","slug":"why-must-oracle-treat-us-like-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2013\/04\/why-must-oracle-treat-us-like-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Must Oracle Treat Us Like Idiots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With yet another round of Java security updates &#8211; (this time to address <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/04\/16\/java-update\/\">42 new security issues<\/a>) &#8211; reaching our computers today, I find myself once again getting agro with Oracle with the nonchalant way they treat people when their updates roll.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Why on earth should\/would a security patch be asking us to install a piece of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bloatware\">bloatware<\/a> like the Ask toolbar?<\/p>\n<p>Why is an important security update concerned with us getting &#8220;Facebook status updates directly in our browsers&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>People have been taught to trust software updates, and Oracle are abusing that trust by trying to trick people into installing useless rubbish like this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s irresponsible, and it&#8217;s not good enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With yet another round of Java security updates &#8211; (this time to address 42 new security issues) &#8211; reaching our computers today, I find myself once again getting agro with Oracle with the nonchalant way they treat people when their updates roll. Why on earth should\/would a security patch be asking us to install a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[219,304,406],"class_list":["post-8100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-fail","tag-java","tag-oracle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}