[wp-testers] Trunk rev 4215

[Mark Jaquith]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 5:38 AM, Ryan Duff wrote:

> On a side note, I don't even use the plugin, but am confused to  
> hell as
> to why you would just removed something then give no reason as to why
> and no reasoning as to why it shouldn't still be included.

He explained it briefly in the commit:

> "This has been a source of security probs, and is mostly replaced  
> by the XML import/export now."

See here, for the Trunk fix for one such security problem:

http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4095

I'm not defending or debating the decision, I just want to get those  
bits of information out there before tempers flare.

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Mark Jaquith
http://txfx.net/