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I learned a lot about security on the web by poking around wordpress sites in school. While I believe what you're saying is true it's hard to believe that the p

by jonesb6 11y ago

I learned a lot about security on the web by poking around wordpress sites in school. While I believe what you're saying is true it's hard to believe that the perception alone of wordpress's 'hackability' doesn't make it much more of a security risk. "Oh they run wordpress? I can probably get into that." "Runs wordpress vulnerability scanner script" "Oh hey look ~wp-config.php!"

keithpeter 11y ago
Yup: so I moved my low traffic vanity site back to static html when I worked out that I was spending more time reinstalling WordPress because of security advisories than actually writing anything. As the chap who runs pinboard put it [1] people like me should not be running web applications like WordPress on live server space. So I ran WordPress locally and harvested the html pages. Then realised that I was using a poky little text area to write when I could just use a text editor... [1] http://idlewords.com/2009/09/how_to_not_get_your_blog_hacked.htm http://idlewords.com/2009/09/how_to_not_get_your_blog_hacked...