... and a lock is for an honest person, too. (*grin*)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Okay so it's not a security issue ;)<br>
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Wasn't there a conversation about this however where if people knew the ver. # of wordpress they could use whatever method is used known to inject into that ver?<br>
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but then again I seem to recall a conversation where it doesn't matter since someone can find out the ver. # anyways regardless if it's in the meta or written someplace... so yeah, Otto is the person to know on this<br>
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On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Tara <<a href="mailto:contact@onedesigns.com" target="_blank">contact@onedesigns.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Yes, by default the footer shows “Powered by WordPress 3.1-RC1”. I felt that<br>
threatens the site’s security.<br>
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Showing version numbers is not a security issue.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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