[theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274

[Chip Bennett]

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).

Showing (or not) the version of WordPress is purely an aesthetic matter, as
far as I'm concerned.

Chip

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com> wrote:

> Let’s say some bored hacker is googling for “powered by wordpress 3.0.3”.
> It actually returns results.
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> *From:* theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org [mailto:
> theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] *On Behalf Of *Edward Caissie
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 01, 2011 10:39 PM
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> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274
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> How does a public facing WordPress version create a security issue? It's
> easily found in the meta tags by default
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> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <
> philip at frumph.net> wrote:
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> Yeah it does and good eye on that one
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> *From:* Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>
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> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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> *Sent:* Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:32 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274
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> Hi,
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> Ok, I’ll take better care at giving explanations.
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> Yes, by default the footer shows “Powered by WordPress 3.1-RC1”. I felt
> that threatens the site’s security.
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> Daniel
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> *From:* theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org [mailto:
> theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] *On Behalf Of *Philip M.
> Hofer (Frumph)
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 01, 2011 10:30 PM
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274
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> If you could add to the ticket an explanation why the calling of RSS
> tickets, with automatic-feed-links that'd be great
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> 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
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> i'm also not sure what you mean by public face the version of wordpress?
> he has wordpress ver.  showing up in the footer?
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> ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>
>
> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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> *Sent:* Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:27 PM
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> *Subject:* [theme-reviewers] Review Ticket 2274
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> Hi,
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> Here’s my review for theme iline - 1.0.3
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> http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2274#comment:2
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> Daniel
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