[wp-hackers] Security: username as class in commenst

[John Blackbourn]

Frank,

The general concensus is that this form of "security" is security by
obscurity and has been discussed many times. This was also noted in a
previous thread of yours a while ago.

http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2008-October/022036.html

Regards,
John.

2009/3/10 Matt Martz <matt at sivel.net>:
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> There was a similar discussion some time ago relating to author pages.  One problem with using the nick name is that it doesn't have to be unique whereas the username does.
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> Frank Bueltge <frank at bueltge.de> wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>the new comment-functions has the username of the author as class.
>>please can you change this in the newxt release to the nickname.
>>
>>i think this is a problem for security.
>>
>>I hope you enjoy this.
>>Frank
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