What happens when you add a backdoor to WordPress, and submit a GitHub pull request… : netsec
Read the Reddit posting and click through the link at the top, or else open this and this.
for the geek-impaired: this is scathing.
What happens when you add a backdoor to WordPress, and submit a GitHub pull request… : reddit netsec
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3 responses to “What happens when you add a backdoor to WordPress, and submit a GitHub pull request… : reddit netsec”
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Both “this”es return 404.
I see this, the other way up; it was caught. In terms of the changes proposed and the spirit they seem to be made in, it’s “Chris Morris comes to open source development”. Fortunately, these package maintainers are less gullible than the celebrities on “Brass Eye” :-).
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Damn, it got killed. 🙂 It was funny for a while…
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Hmmm, yeah, the pull request comments are in Google’s cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress/pull/18
The code is still sitting on GitHub, but whatever.
The 404 page is pretty cool, though. Wiggle your mouse. : – )
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