Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers

Re:Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers by nbpoole on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @01:49PM (#2443338)

Low-level as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-_and_low-level, not as in "very little access" (which I'm assuming is the impression you're getting: correct me if I'm mistaken)

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Re:Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers by nikcub on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @01:56PM (#2443371)

I see that meaning but the way it was written you would think the context was access

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Re:Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers by nbpoole on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @01:57PM (#2443383)

And low-level access (to me) means root access. The only lower level access I can think of would be if someone broke into the datacenter and stole the server ;)

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Re:Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers by trotsky on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @03:33PM (#2443782)

broke into the fab and altered the microcode ;)

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Re:Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers by zheng on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @04:40PM (#2444083)

Don't even need to do that, a simple BIOS update can update the microcode on most semi-recent Intels.

EDIT: I'd assume other architectures as well, Intels are the only ones I know about, however.

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Re:Hacker Gains Access To WordPress.com Servers by nikcub on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @02:08PM (#2443421)

I think most people that read the story will read it that same way though, since it says 'Automatic had a low-level break-in'

bah - who cares, they have bigger problems than PR message wording

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