{"id":955,"date":"2005-01-09T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=955"},"modified":"2005-01-09T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2005-01-09T16:30:52","slug":"not-spyware-classification-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/09\/not-spyware-classification-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Not Spyware&rdquo; Classification for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chrislawson.net\/blog\/archives\/000433.php\">Chris Lawson<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/chrislawson.net\/blog\/archives\/000433.php\">\r\n<p>\r\nThis raises a disturbing issue: at what price can the &ldquo;this software is safe&rdquo; label be bought? How many lawyers does it take to designate a rank, festering spyware application &ldquo;perfectly-safe-to-run-this-on-your-grandma&rsquo;s-computer&rdquo;-ware? I realise that the vast majority of true problem apps are written by shady organisations without crack legal teams, but this sets a disturbing precedent. Why, now, should anyone trust any spyware removal tool from a large corporation? Who&rsquo;s to say it isn&rsquo;t intentionally overlooking its own spyware, or its partners&rsquo; spyware?\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Lawson: This raises a disturbing issue: at what price can the &ldquo;this software is safe&rdquo; label be bought? How many lawyers does it take to designate a rank, festering spyware application &ldquo;perfectly-safe-to-run-this-on-your-grandma&rsquo;s-computer&rdquo;-ware? I realise that the vast majority of true problem apps are written by shady organisations without crack legal teams, but this sets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}