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Wordpress 2.1.1 may contain nasty surprise
The long-and-short of the situation is this: if you downloaded and installed the most recent version of WordPress from wordpress.org in the last few days, you weren't downloading the official release– you were downloading a modified version that likely includes some sort of back-door.
Although only a subset of in-the-wild copies of 2.1.1 contain the vulnerability, the development team has declared the entire release "dangerous," and highly suggest all users upgrade to 2.1.2.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Dave Chartier said 11:00PM on 3-02-2007
In the words of Mr. Frank:
"asshole."
Seriously, what the hell does sabotaging WordPress do for anyone?
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Andrew Hillman, Andrew Hillman said 11:27PM on 3-02-2007
Big Suprise!
Andrew Hillman
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