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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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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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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