{"id":2234,"date":"2003-02-27T15:11:23","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T22:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/02\/lamest-editorial-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2003-02-27T15:11:23","modified_gmt":"2003-02-27T22:11:23","slug":"lamest-editorial-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/27\/lamest-editorial-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamest editorial of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Mercury News | 02\/27\/2003 | White House takes a pass on securing cyberspace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/opinion\/5274431.htm\">The Mercury News<\/a> is now upset with President Bush for not dictating security policies to ISPs and others:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But the Internet is also a medium where anyone&#8217;s poor security can affect everyone else. In such an environment, setting basic standards makes sense. Why not require ISPs to secure their broadband customers with firewalls?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Editorial nonsense from Silicon Valley&#8217;s paper of record is routine and unremarkable, but this seems to set a new standard of stupidity and arrogance.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercury News is now upset with President Bush for not dictating security policies to ISPs and others: But the Internet is also a medium where anyone&#8217;s poor security can affect everyone else. In such an environment, setting basic standards makes sense. Why not require ISPs to secure their broadband customers with firewalls? Editorial nonsense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/27\/lamest-editorial-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lamest editorial of the day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-A2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}