Am I throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Shane pointed out that staying on top of Wordpress updates is a small cost for being able to use such a great blog management system. I used to think this was true until I read this, from Donncha O Caoimh's blog (one of the developers at WP):
Unfortunately for some who did upgrade, it was too late. The hacker slimeballs may have known about the security issues before we did and went about their merry way breaking into blogs and websites, grabbing usernames and passwords, and planting backdoor scripts to log them in again at a later date.
That’s how even diligently upgraded blogs were hacked. The bad guys got there before you.
So that pretty much scared the crap out of me. These wordpress security issues are only going to get worse. I know that anything can get hacked (especially anything open-sourced) but Wordpress's popularity makes it a huge target.
And as for the value of the 28,000+ incoming links I've manged to build up? I'm willing to let them go, *poof* just like that. I think I'll tell you why in another post.
