[wp-hackers] Plugin update & security / privacy

[Mark Shields]

On 9/25/07, Kimmo Suominen <kimmo at global-wire.fi> wrote:
>
> Thank you for including this info in the WP 2.3 announcement:
>
>     Our new update notification lets you know when there is a new
>     release of WordPress or when any of the plugins you use has an
>     update available. It works by sending your blog URL, plugins, and
>     version information to our new api.wordpress.org service which then
>     compares it to the plugin database and tells you what the latest and
>     greatest is you can use.
>
> Now I feel I can simply translate that without worries about disclosure
> on that front.
>
> Best regards,
> + Kimmo
> --
> <A HREF="http://kimmo.suominen.com/">Kimmo Suominen</A>
>
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This e-mail thread found it's way onto slashdot, by the way.  As usual,
there's a lot of spin.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/25/1632246
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- Mark Shields