{"id":171,"date":"2001-10-04T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-04T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-12-30T23:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T07:00:28","slug":"shortening-the-bungee-cord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Shortening the bungee cord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Nothing against Microsoft, but I loved the metaphor in this quote from the ZDNet article, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/zdnn\/stories\/news\/0,4586,5097789,00.html\" title=\"3 Oct 2001\">Microsoft confronts security fears<\/a>\", regarding changes in Microsoft's security plans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> [Gartner analyst John Pescatore] likened Microsoft's [past security] approach to running a bungee-jumping concession. \"You probably ought to make the rubber band a little short,\" he said. \"What Microsoft has always done in the past is give a really big rubber band and say, 'Oops, we heard a splat. Here's how you can shorten the rubber band.'\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing against Microsoft, but I loved the metaphor in this quote from the ZDNet article, \"Microsoft confronts security fears\", regarding changes in Microsoft's security plans: [Gartner analyst John Pescatore] likened Microsoft's [past security] approach to running a bungee-jumping concession. \"You probably ought to make the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=171\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}