[theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274

[Edward Caissie]

... and a lock is for an honest person, too. (*grin*)

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
<philip at frumph.net>wrote:

> Okay so it's not a security issue ;)
>
> 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?
>
> 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
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Otto" <otto at ottodestruct.com>
> To: <theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:35 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, by default the footer shows “Powered by WordPress 3.1-RC1”. I felt
>> that
>> threatens the site’s security.
>>
>
> Showing version numbers is not a security issue.
>
> -Otto
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