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Re:New attacks today against Wordpress (lots of sites hacked) by tptacek on Friday May 07, 2010 @01:42PM (#1328212)
Weigh PHP, categories, comments, human-readable URLs, and convenience against retaining control of your content or (potentially) the server it lives on.

The people running Sendmail in the '90s went through all these arguments too.

It's hard to understand how a blog package could have created a worse track record than Sendmail (though I can tell you how). But it did.

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Re:New attacks today against Wordpress (lots of sites hacked) by aw3c2 on Friday May 07, 2010 @01:43PM (#1328215)
That is not a solution to the problem. If there was only sendmail, should one stop sending mail?
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Re:New attacks today against Wordpress (lots of sites hacked) by tptacek on Friday May 07, 2010 @01:44PM (#1328219)
I rejected your premise. I didn't try to solve your problem. Your need for PHP, categories, and whatever else doesn't make any difference. Wordpress will be as, insecure as it will be independent of your need for it not to be.

Again: avoid Wordpress. If you can't, you have my sympathy.

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