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Huh? Wordpress is just fine (well, fine enough..), it's the themes from shady 3rd party websites that are the issue being talked about here.
by burgerbrain 16y ago
Huh? Wordpress is just fine (well, fine enough..), it's the themes from shady 3rd party websites that are the issue being talked about here.
- patio11 16y agoWordpress is not fine, because it encourages installing untrusted code. I am making the fairly consequential point that Wordpress is hardly alone in this, and that doing so allows the attacker to do anything they want. Shady 3rd party websites are hardly the only thing you have to worry about: how hard do you think it would be to use a modestly popular Ruby gem or Rails plugin to inject links? I think the answer is "Absolutely trivial."
- AgentConundrum 16y agoYou say "Wordpress is not fine", but yet this is a perfectly valid link: http://www.kalzumeus.com/wp-admin http://www.kalzumeus.com/wp-admin I understand the point you're making here, Patrick, but it does feel slightly hypocritical for you to deride something as "not fine" when it seems to suit your needs just "fine."