September 10, 2009
I'm sure we've been through this before Comments Off
So there’s been quite a lot of wank lately about wordpress and it’s security and/or lack thereof. It goes a little bit like this:
Random Blog Owner: My blog has been hacked. Noooo!
Random Tech Person #1: Well, that’s what you get for using wordpress.
Random WP evangelist: No no no… it’s RBO’s own fault. They didn’t keep up with the security patches.
RTP #1: Hrmph. REAL blogging software doesn’t need to be patched every month.
Creaky dino-blogger: Back in my day, we didn’t even have software! We coded and posted everything by hand. Uphill! In the snow! Both ways!
Random Tech Person #2: Non-techies shouldn’t be hosting their own blogs. Go get a hosted account with LiveJournal or DreamWidth or Blogger or wordpress.com or (insert other hosted service here).
Lather, rinse, repeat. Am tired of this already.