{"id":308,"date":"2003-12-03T19:00:42-05:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T03:00:42+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=308"},"modified":"2003-12-03T19:00:42-05:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-04T03:00:42+00:00","slug":"blame-where-its-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2003\/12\/03\/blame-where-its-due\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame where it&#8217;s&nbsp;due"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>I&#8217;ve had Andrew Clover&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doxdesk.com\/parasite\/\">IE parasite detector<\/a> installed on this site for quite a while.  IE is notoriously susceptible to security flaws: it leaves itself open to all sorts of exploits and hacks by downloading and installing malicious software at the drop of a hat without a user&#8217;s knowledge.  So in the interests of being a good net citizen&#8211;and to help debug <a href=\"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/archives\/2003\/12\/03\/hulk-smash\">this problem<\/a>&#8211;I put it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sirens3.com\/\">sirens3.com<\/a> a few days ago.<\/p>\n\n<p>For the record: I have <strong>never<\/strong>, nor will I <strong>ever<\/strong>, put spyware, malware, or any other remotely shady piece of code on any website.<\/p>\n\n<p>Today I got my first angry e-mail.  The person accused me of installing a piece of spyware that I&#8217;ve never even heard of, which was actually just found by the parasite detection script.  I explained, hopefully clearly, my position on spyware and that I will never be a party to its use; I haven&#8217;t received a response yet.  But this negative feedback has put me in something of a moral bind: do I remove it from the site and let people who are infected go on their merry way, or do I do the ethical thing and leave it but risk having Sirens&#8217; reputation damaged through similar misunderstandings?<\/p>\n\n<p>Stating it like that, I think there&#8217;s only one choice.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve had Andrew Clover&#8217;s IE parasite detector installed on this site for quite a while. IE is notoriously susceptible to security flaws: it leaves itself open to all sorts of exploits and hacks by downloading and installing malicious software at the drop of a hat without a user&#8217;s knowledge. So in the interests of being&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}