{"id":280,"date":"2004-06-29T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/politics\/electoral\/bush_v_kerry_websites.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"bush_v_kerry_websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2004\/06\/29\/bush_v_kerry_websites","title":{"rendered":"Bush V. Kerry Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerbytesman.com\/\" title=\"Computer Bytes Man\">Richard M. Smith<\/a><a class=\"webcache\" title=\"Locally Cached Version\" href=\"\/adam\/cache\/politics\/bush_v_kerry_websites.txt\/retrieve\/http:\/\/www.computerbytesman.com\/\">&#183;<\/a> performed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerbytesman.com\/security\/bush-v-kerry.htm\" title=\"Bush v. Kerry\">security audits<\/a><a class=\"webcache\" title=\"Locally Cached Version\" href=\"\/adam\/cache\/politics\/bush_v_kerry_websites.txt\/retrieve\/http:\/\/www.computerbytesman.com\/security\/bush-v-kerry.htm\">&#183;<\/a> of the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\" title=\"GeorgeWBush.com :: The Official Re-election Site for President George W. Bush\">George Bush<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkerry.com\" title=\":: John Kerry for President - Welcome to JohnKerry.com! ::\">John Kerry<\/a> websites; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politechbot.com\/pipermail\/politech\/2004-June\/000751.html\" title=\"[Politech] Richard Smith rates Bush, Kerry website security\">the results were posted<\/a><a class=\"webcache\" title=\"Locally Cached Version\" href=\"\/adam\/cache\/politics\/bush_v_kerry_websites.txt\/retrieve\/http:\/\/www.politechbot.com\/pipermail\/politech\/2004-June\/000751.html\">&#183;<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccullaugh.org\">Declan McCullagh<\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/politechbot.com\" title=\"Politech: Declan McCullagh's politics and technology site\">Politech<\/a><a class=\"webcache\" title=\"Locally Cached Version\" href=\"\/adam\/cache\/politics\/bush_v_kerry_websites.txt\/retrieve\/http:\/\/politechbot.com\">&#183;<\/a> list. Both sites come up short in many ways, but Kerry is the clear winner for choice of technology: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> It appears that the open source vs. closed source debate has also entered the presidential campaign. The Kerry home page comes from an Apache Web server running on a Red Hat Linux box. The Bush Web site on the other hand is hosted on a more corporate Microsoft-powered IIS 5.0 server and uses ASP.NET. I did not check to see if this IIS server is up to date with Microsoft security patches. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (yet another entry that should really be filed under multiple categories; &#8220;politics->electoral&#8221; <em>and<\/em> &#8220;free software->politics.&#8221;) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard M. Smith&#183; performed security audits&#183; of the official George Bush and John Kerry websites; the results were posted&#183; on Declan McCullagh&#8217;s Politech&#183; list. Both sites come up short in many ways, but Kerry is the clear winner for choice of technology: It appears that the open source vs. closed source debate has also entered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}