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If You Thought Weak Passwords Were the Only Weakness...

  • To: wp-hackers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Subject: If You Thought Weak Passwords Were the Only Weakness...
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:39:28 +0100
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I worry that this might feed some script kiddies, but it's very important to explicitly tell people _NOT_ to share their files too openly.

http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=username&as_filename=wp-config.php

Such things could lead people to blaming the CMS rather than their own actions... and previously I shared a story about a blog we have on campus, which was cracked having had a text file available with /all/ the passwords.

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