The Script Kiddies don't do that. They just run scripts that attempt all known hacks, usually against some IP range (unless a specific site is targeted, in e.g. a DDOS attack).<div><br></div><div>Showing (or not) the version of WordPress is purely an aesthetic matter, as far as I'm concerned.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Daniel Tara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@onedesigns.com">contact@onedesigns.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Let’s say some bored hacker is googling for “powered by wordpress 3.0.3”. It actually returns results.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Edward Caissie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 01, 2011 10:39 PM</span></p><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274</div>
</div><p></p><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">How does a public facing WordPress version create a security issue? It's easily found in the meta tags by default</p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>> wrote:</p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Yeah it does and good eye on that one</span></p>
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<div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">----- Original Message ----- </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#E4E4E4"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:contact@onedesigns.com" title="contact@onedesigns.com" target="_blank">Daniel Tara</a> </span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" title="theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a> </span></p>
</div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:32 PM</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Re: [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ok, I’ll take better care at giving explanations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Yes, by default the footer shows “Powered by WordPress 3.1-RC1”. I felt that threatens the site’s security.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Daniel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers-bounces@lists.wordpress.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 01, 2011 10:30 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274</span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">If you could add to the ticket an explanation why the calling of RSS tickets, with automatic-feed-links that'd be great</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">One of the things that we've been trying to emphasis is the further explanation portion, the why and how part where we're teaching not just giving blank solid answers</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">i'm also not sure what you mean by public face the version of wordpress? he has wordpress ver. showing up in the footer?</span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">----- Original Message ----- </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#E4E4E4"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:contact@onedesigns.com" title="contact@onedesigns.com" target="_blank">Daniel Tara</a> </span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" title="theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org" target="_blank">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a> </span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:27 PM</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274</span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Here’s my review for theme iline - 1.0.3</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2274#comment:2" target="_blank">http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2274#comment:2</a></p>
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