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Re:How to Keep WordPress Secure by tsally on Sunday September 06, 2009 @02:21AM (#807540)
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.
Re:How to Keep WordPress Secure by reedlaw on Sunday September 06, 2009 @03:46AM (#807593)
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.
Re:How to Keep WordPress Secure by rincewind on Sunday September 06, 2009 @08:16AM (#807739)
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.

Re:How to Keep WordPress Secure by reedlaw on Sunday September 06, 2009 @09:45AM (#807784)
I meant Windows 95 and 98. NT is one of the vast improvements I had in mind.
Re:How to Keep WordPress Secure by _b8r0 on Sunday September 06, 2009 @07:54AM (#807729)
OpenBSD has had plenty of vulnerabilities, including a couple of remote ones.
Re:How to Keep WordPress Secure by reedlaw on Sunday September 06, 2009 @09:47AM (#807786)
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?
Re:How to Keep WordPress Secure by shykes on Sunday September 06, 2009 @11:39AM (#807878)
OpenSSH has had more than its share of vulnerabilities.
Re:How to Keep WordPress Secure by scythe on Sunday September 06, 2009 @03:35PM (#808074)
seL4!

...wait, that's cheating, isn't it?

Re:How to Keep WordPress Secure by nir on Sunday September 06, 2009 @10:46AM (#807835)
The fact it's been written in PHP is meaningless. As for "designed without security as a goal", I think you'll find that's true for most web apps.