HARVS1789UK on "[Theme: Twenty Fourteen] Malware Detected in Theme Files"
To add to the above I have V1.1 of the twentyfourteen theme installed
View ArticlefearRacious on "malicious on the plugins, which one??"
It was already not blacklisted anymore.I have made the request review yesterday...All good. Cheers
View Articlebertholf on "[Plugin: MailPoet Newsletters] Malware"
This plugin was the injection source for a nasty malware. Ensure you patch permissions on the uploads/wysija folder <?php if(!isset($GLOBALS["\x61\156\x75\156\x61"])) {...
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
jetpack is basically spyware, and it violates the spirit of open source. First the open source issue - the point of open source is that anyone can fork it without needing to reverse engineer. But a...
View ArticleJan Dembowski on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
Disclaimer: I am not an Automattic employee but I recently did have an opportunity to meet some of the people who work on Jetpack in person. They're good people and I like them. jetpack is basically...
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
That's the point - a blog that uses jetpack doesn't ask me if it can share my e-mail address with wordpress.com - it just does, and I would say no if it did ask me because I don't want that to happen,...
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
Oh - and what they are doing with the data that passes through their cloud doesn't matter, justified spying is still spying and if they don't have the consent to look at the data from me, the user, it...
View Articleleejosepho on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
"Malware, short for malicious software, is any software used to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems...a variety of forms of hostile or...
View ArticleJan Dembowski on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
That's the point - a blog that uses jetpack doesn't ask me if it can share my e-mail address with wordpress.com - it just does, and I would say no if it did ask me because I don't want that to happen,...
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
Javascript popup asking the user if it is okay to share their e-mail address with wordpress.com. If the user clicks cancel, then nothing is sent and the user is not subscribed to the blog. It's not...
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
In fact it is super easy to do. Attach the JavaScript to the submit event - the way that works, the JS intercepts the submit. User presses cancel and the script returns false and the form does not...
View ArticleRyan Hellyer on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
Firstly, I am no fan of JetPack. However .... Is it spyware? Sort of. But so is WordPress itself since it includes externally hosted files and an API which phones home. If you don't like this sort of...
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
Really nice bunch -have any of you ever heard of social engineering? Kevin Mitnick - he wasn't really a code hacker, he was a social engineer, a really nice guy. Ross Ulbricht - the evidence against...
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
Oh - as far as things like external resources, a VPN or an anonymous proxy protects against that if you need, but they don't protect against my e-mail address being shared with wordpress.com without my...
View ArticleJeremy Herve on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
Hey AliceWonderFull, I work on the Jetpack team, and I wanted to answer a few of the questions you had here. First, and probably the most important concern you had: as far as I know, Jetpack doesn't...
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
That's an idea, and something that could be described as "triple opt-in", I guess. It's a nice idea, and would help site owners provide absolute transparency about what they do with their readers'...
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
skimlinks - those are what you snuck in, claimed was an accident, and snuck in again. And doing things in an iframe makes it easy for you to do without us being able to see the code for it in the...
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
slightly off-topic - for those of you who are not aware how gravatar works, it takes an unsalted md5sum of your e-mail address and uses that to request the really well done cute gravatars from...
View ArticleJeremy Herve on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
It may turn away some subscribers, but that's not a valid reason not to do it. If it turns away some subscribers, it is because those subscribers do not want their e-mail address shared with you....
View ArticleAliceWonderFull on "Remove jetpack from the plugin repository"
Okay, I took a breather, I don't want to be angry. Company X that I frequent runs at least 100 blogs, all of them they managed their own subscriptions, which is not hard. Setting up postfix is such a...
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