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Re:Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a Wor... by notgood on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:31PM (#14119213)
Not really, indexing the top 100 most popular plugins would be enough, and you don't have to ping all files of each one, a single file for each one would be enough (so 100 request).
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Re:Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a Wor... by robjan on Saturday April 15, 2017 @08:06AM (#14120424)
I would still question the legality of that. It's akin to running a port scan on the top x number of ports.
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Re:Show HN: WP Detective – Show what theme and plugins a Wor... by notgood on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:11AM (#14136632)
Everything is illegal if you are oppressive enough.
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