[wp-forums] Interesting reading material re "Blacklisted Plugins"

[Christine Rondeau]

Hilarious, but I felt the same as well.
Now, it's the first thing I delete, second, twenty thirteen. :)

Christine Rondeau
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Christy Eller <iamchristyeller at gmail.com>wrote:

> When I first started with WordPress, I was totally afraid to delete Hello
> Dolly. I was sure that it was tracked somehow, and someone would know I was
> a disrespectful WordPress user, or at the very least it would hurt Matt's
> feelings...
>
> Christy Eller
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> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Marius Jensen <funman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's clearly made up of pure evil and voodoo magic :P
> >
> > I'm guessing the original list they used had it listed because they had
> > clients who got exploited and code injected into X plugins, and Hello
> Dolly
> > is pretty much always there on self hosted so it's a safe target in that
> > regard, still...why veto a list when you can copy it, amirite?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Keith Messinger
> > <keithmessinger at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Wow. Hello Dolly. Who knew?
> > >
> > > Keith
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wp-forums [mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On
> > Behalf
> > > Of
> > > Jan Dembowski
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:26 AM
> > > To: wp-forums at lists.automattic.com
> > > Subject: [wp-forums] Interesting reading material re "Blacklisted
> > Plugins"
> > >
> > > Good morning,
> > >
> > > I came across this link in a post today.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/8964/managed-wordpress-blacklisted-p
> > > lugins
> > >
> > > I get why a managed WordPress service would have plugins that are not
> > > allowed for various reasons but I think it's a stretch to label them
> all
> > > security risks.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jan Dembowski
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> > --
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