{"id":681,"date":"2004-10-31T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=681"},"modified":"2004-10-31T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2004-10-31T00:00:04","slug":"windows_atms_vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Windows, ATM&#8217;s &#038; Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Windows everywhere strategy comes home to roost.  Mark Ward looks into the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3962573.stm\">growing use of Windows<\/a> in cash machines (!) and the virus risk thereof.<br \/>\nThis is a recipe for disaster.  Windows was never designed for this, yet the marketing machine rolls on.  I recall being stuck in a line to purchase a salad at a Phoenix cafe a few months ago, all due to their cash register crashing (powered by Windows&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Windows everywhere strategy comes home to roost. Mark Ward looks into the growing use of Windows in cash machines (!) and the virus risk thereof. This is a recipe for disaster. Windows was never designed for this, yet the marketing machine rolls on. I recall being stuck in a line to purchase a salad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}