{"id":2320,"date":"2017-05-16T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2017-05-16T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T14:27:09","slug":"the-thing-with-updates-and-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2017\/05\/the-thing-with-updates-and-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"The thing with updates and patches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People don\u2019t update machines because updates break what they were doing with those machines. It always happens: you think you\u2019re smart and pro active updating some stuff, thinking it won\u2019t change anything. And then you can\u2019t work. Something isn\u2019t right. Security patches deleted some cached stuff, set a variable to 0 instead of 1 and now the software you were using refuses to work or is unstable for some obscure, complex and code-based reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of places like hospitals don\u2019t have the margin for that kind of bullshit, thus they don\u2019t update. If things work, don\u2019t fucking update, don\u2019t change nothing. That\u2019s not negligence, that\u2019s common sense at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest thing in this ransom story is that yes, computers as they were running in 2000 are enough and do a great job almost twenty years later. No, we do not need the last version of Windows, the very last hardware. It\u2019s not fucking fashion, these are computers. They\u2019re used to do some stuff and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we should leave a lot of (most) computers offline, like we used to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People don\u2019t update machines because updates break what they were doing with those machines. It always happens: you think you\u2019re smart and pro active updating some stuff, thinking it won\u2019t change anything. And then you can\u2019t work. Something isn\u2019t right. Security patches deleted some cached stuff, set a variable to 0 instead of 1 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}