Re:How to Keep WordPress Secure
by tsally on Sunday September 06, 2009 @02:21AM
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Except that Wordpress is written in PHP and designed without security as a goal. True, security is all about probability, but Wordpress' odds are not that good.
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Windows was originally built without security as a major focus, but has been improved vastly. So has WordPress. Except for a few rare cases where security was a primary goal, such as OpenBSD, most software will be discovered to have vulnerabilities at some point in time.
Windows was originally built without security as a major focus.
This is misleading. Windows NT was built with security in mind. Windows Xp, Vista and 7 are descended from NT.
I meant Windows 95 and 98. NT is one of the vast improvements I had in mind.
OpenBSD has had plenty of vulnerabilities, including a couple of remote ones.
So it's a good example of software built with security as a primary focus that still has vulnerabilities. I can think of few examples of software that has never had vulnerabilities discovered. OpenSSH maybe?
OpenSSH has had more than its share of vulnerabilities.
seL4!
...wait, that's cheating, isn't it?