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WP has absolutely no room to be making fun of security issues.

They caught this one because it was an obvious attempt, but their track history sucks.

Mocking evil hackers is a very stupid idea.

Oh and I believe they tried this because someone was successful in the past if I remember correctly.




> Mocking evil hackers is a very stupid idea.

So, every script kiddie is an "evil hacker" now?

> Oh and I believe they tried this because someone was successful in the past if I remember correctly.

Source?


At least one incident here, my memory is clouded by all the issues over the years:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/22/1241241/wordpressorg-h...


Thanks for the link, but inserting commits by hacking the infrastructure isn't quite the same as having a pull request officially merged.

Even the Linux infrastructure was hacked not too long ago. More such example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464303




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