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

[Jan Dembowski]

So... Bad things *won't* happen if I delete Hello Dolly...? ;)

Christine Rondeau wrote:
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> Hilarious, but I felt the same as well.
> Now, it's the first thing I delete, second, twenty thirteen. :)
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> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Christy 
> Eller<iamchristyeller at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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...
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>> Christy Eller
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>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Marius Jensen<funman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> It's clearly made up of pure evil and voodoo magic :P
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>>> 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
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>> Dolly
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>>> 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?
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>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Keith Messinger
>>> <keithmessinger at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>> Wow. Hello Dolly. Who knew?
>>>>
>>>> Keith
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: wp-forums [mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On
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>>> Behalf
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>>>> 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
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>>> Plugins"
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>>>> Good morning,
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>>>> I came across this link in a post today.
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>> http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/8964/managed-wordpress-blacklisted-p
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>>>> lugins
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>>>> 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
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>> all
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>>>> security risks.
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>>>> Thanks,
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>>>> Jan Dembowski
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