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RE: Humble Suggestion for Growing Hive

in #hive3 days ago

If I understand this correctly, you want to take individual communities like, say, Freewrite or Photography Lovers and give them branded websites using your Wordpress plugin. Is that right?

That's not really the best way to maintain security. Even with the best security protocols, Wordpress is easy to hack. You'd be better off building from the ground up.

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What do you mean by easy to hack and what is from the ground up? What stack would we use?

I can't answer your question as I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea. I'm not sure what you're trying to do.

WordPress is ~40% of the commercial web, it’s plenty secure when set up and managed correctly.

Walk me through your thoughts, though. Do you have specific security concerns?

Plugins are easily hacked. Themes are easily hacked. Without auditing your specific setup, we're just talking about nebulous details, but I've worked with WP for 20 years. I know what it's capable of.

I’ve worked with it for 20 years too but I don’t think it’s inherently insecure 🤷🏻

You think it's inherently secure?

I think if you configure and administrate it correctly it is secure.

It is not a binary consideration:

  1. Is it inherently insecure? No.
  2. Can it be secure? Yes.
  3. Is it secure out of the box? No.

Pointless debating this because it is clearly secure* given the case studies and the people/companies/brands/governments/projects successfully using it.

  • Given my above caveats.

Also any alternative suggestions will have the same caveats.

All of that is well and good, but we got sidetracked. Apologies for bringing it up. I was really trying to understand your proposal. I had to read this again to understand. It sounds like you're promoting your WP plugin. Is it already developed? Where would someone find it?

It’s not about my plugin, I’d rather focus on the wider concept