[wp-hackers] Revisiting phone home and privacy

[Peter Westwood]

On 9 Dec 2009, at 16:15, Otto wrote:

> Because, by default, WordPress sends your URL to Pingomatic every
> single time you post. That's sort of the whole point of XML-RPC pings.
> And, Pingomatic is owned by Automattic, in case you were unaware.
>

Actually Pingomatic is run by the WordPress Foundation not Automattic  
as is WordPress.org

Of course you url also goes out everytime you ping/trackback another  
blog article as well.

Cheers

Peter
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