{"id":744,"date":"2006-05-05T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcbook.local\/wds\/playground\/cybertrust\/2006\/05\/05\/washington-post-a-time-to-patch-iii-apple\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T09:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T16:49:37","slug":"washington-post-a-time-to-patch-iii-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2006\/05\/05\/washington-post-a-time-to-patch-iii-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post &#8211; A Time to Patch III: Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably already read Brian Krebs article <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/securityfix\/2006\/05\/a_time_to_patch_iii_apple_2.html\">A Time to Patch III: Apple<\/a>, but if you haven&#8217;t, I encourage you to read it and read the various responses he received &#8211; the responses run the gamut of <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linux advocates (&#8220;You do understand that Mac OS X is not a version of Linux, and is not an open source OS in the usual sense of the word?&#8221;), <\/li>\n<li>conspiracy theorists (&#8220;&#8230;This sounds much more like Microsoft propaganda&#8230;&#8221;), <\/li>\n<li>open source advocates (&#8220;&#8230; 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