{"id":791,"date":"2002-02-07T12:18:33","date_gmt":"2002-02-07T12:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=791"},"modified":"2002-02-07T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2002-02-07T12:18:33","slug":"i_knew_there_ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"I knew there had to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><STRONG>I knew there had to be a catch<\/STRONG> <\/p>\n<p \/><P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft<\/A> has posted a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/TechNet\/security\/bulletin\/ms02-002.asp\">Security Bulletin for Office v.X<\/A>. Office has this piracy protection &#8216;feature&#8217; that when you run it, it looks to see if any other copies of it are running on your network with the same license key. It&#8217;s kind of annoying. I wonder if they make a bulk license version that only uses one key (Imagine trying to manage an office of anything more then 5 people with this). Anyways, it seems that there&#8217;s a bug in the feature that lets people send a packet to a machine running office trips the feature. Making Office suddenly shut down, giving the user no chance to save their work.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>Now I like Office v.X a lot. I think MS&#8217;s Mac group did a great job on it, but it&#8217;s details like this that keep reaffirming my poor attitude towards Microsoft. Thank god OSX has a built-in firewall so I can block that protection check.<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew there had to be a catch Microsoft has posted a Security Bulletin for Office v.X. Office has this piracy protection &#8216;feature&#8217; that when you run it, it looks to see if any other copies of it are running on your network with the same license key. It&#8217;s kind of annoying. I wonder if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}