But how many people are expected to read the tickets, along with the source code of every program they choose to use? Also it looks like there is another issue involving a plugin that comes with Wordpress.
It appears as if this was going to be placed into the code without notifying anyone of it. It was people in the linked list that found out about this, which provoked a rather harsh response from the developer. Considering the amount of secrecy that was evidently intended with this feature, what is to prevent even more information to be sent in the future? A security update could come out next week and in that a developer decides to sneak a code in that also sends a list of all emails in your user database.
Trust is something earned. The trust for Wordpress has gone down in my book. I will be moving my site to another platform this week.
As a lawyer who specializes in tech related issues, I have written numerous privacy statements and end user agreements for software companies. They pay money for these to protect their own interests, as well as the interests of their users. Wordpress took none of these into consideration. That is ashame since Wordpress is a great platform for the person who isn't that technically gifted. Those are also the same people that deserve some sort of guarantee that their privacy is of utmost concern to the software manufacturers, and not be expected to learn programming or search mailing lists to find out about it.
And when I installed Windows, I agreed to this information being sent. This not only provided me with a layer of protection on what the information can and can not be used for, but also provides Microsoft with their own protection. It appears this isn't the case with Wordpress. I can't find anything in any license agreement that they will be retrieving this information. Reading through the link, it appears that this was done very stealthy. Now why would that be?
The entire open source community should be upset over this decision. Now everyone will be wondering what information their open source application might send home.
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But how many people are expected to read the tickets, along with the source code of every program they choose to use? Also it looks like there is another issue involving a plugin that comes with Wordpress.
It appears as if this was going to be placed into the code without notifying anyone of it. It was people in the linked list that found out about this, which provoked a rather harsh response from the developer. Considering the amount of secrecy that was evidently intended with this feature, what is to prevent even more information to be sent in the future? A security update could come out next week and in that a developer decides to sneak a code in that also sends a list of all emails in your user database. Trust is something earned. The trust for Wordpress has gone down in my book. I will be moving my site to another platform this week. As a lawyer who specializes in tech related issues, I have written numerous privacy statements and end user agreements for software companies. They pay money for these to protect their own interests, as well as the interests of their users. Wordpress took none of these into consideration. That is ashame since Wordpress is a great platform for the person who isn't that technically gifted. Those are also the same people that deserve some sort of guarantee that their privacy is of utmost concern to the software manufacturers, and not be expected to learn programming or search mailing lists to find out about it.
And when I installed Windows, I agreed to this information being sent. This not only provided me with a layer of protection on what the information can and can not be used for, but also provides Microsoft with their own protection. It appears this isn't the case with Wordpress. I can't find anything in any license agreement that they will be retrieving this information. Reading through the link, it appears that this was done very stealthy. Now why would that be?
The entire open source community should be upset over this decision. Now everyone will be wondering what information their open source application might send home.