[pLog-svn] some people are privacy crazed

[Matt Wood]

Heh, you don't even need to compromise WP's webservice... all you need to do
is poison the client's dns.

That is kinda scary, good thing I used Lifetype! ;)

On 9/26/07, Oscar Renalias <oscar at renalias.net> wrote:
>
> I saw that yesterday too, but I think that the issue was totally blown
> out of proportions.
>
> If you remember, we've had a version notification system since LT
> 1.2.4 but I think we did it the right way compared to the way WP is
> doing it:
>
> - The "version check" functionality is currently not automatic, so
> users need to actively visit the "plugin centre" and/or the "versions"
> screens and click a button to receive information about the most
> recent version and whether or not they should upgrade. I've
> purposefully reserved the right to do this automatically in the
> future, though (but it'll be opt-in or at least easy to disable)
>
> - Our implementation is built based on RSS feeds, so the bulk of the
> processing is done on the client side. In the WP implementation,
> they've got a web service that collects data from clients and informs
> them whether they should upgrade or not. In our implementation, the
> RSS feed just contains information about available versions and the
> client figures out whether the user need to upgrade or not. Our
> implementation is also more secure, as it does not require any PHP
> code on the server side (imagine if WP's web service were to be
> compromised!)
>
> Oscar
>
> On 9/26/07, Jon Daley <plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
> > If/when we add the thing that allows people to get a notification about
> a
> > new version available, we'll have to add a way to disable it, since some
> > folks don't like their blog URL being sent to someone else.  And to
> think
> > I thought URLs were public, and the whole point of the internet was to
> > have other people come to your site...
> >
> > http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/09/25/1632246.shtml
> >
> > --
> > Jon Daley
> > http://jon.limedaley.com/
> >
> > One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to
> > make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
> > -- G. Weilacher
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