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Four-year-old comment security bug affects 86 percent of WordPress sites (Ars Technica)

Four-year-old comment security bug affects 86 percent of WordPress sites (Ars Technica)

Posted Dec 5, 2014 9:53 UTC (Fri) by tao (subscriber, #17563)
In reply to: Four-year-old comment security bug affects 86 percent of WordPress sites (Ars Technica) by Seegras
Parent article: Four-year-old comment security bug affects 86 percent of WordPress sites (Ars Technica)

Pingbacks as a means of commenting suck. It's one thing if you write an opinion-piece and someone else writes a rebuttal, but if someone writes, say, a technical article and someone wants to ask a question you really want to have support for comments.


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Four-year-old comment security bug affects 86 percent of WordPress sites (Ars Technica)

Posted Dec 5, 2014 16:54 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I didn't even know that was what pingbacks *were*; they have the same context-oblivious "click me!" appearance as the spam that usually appears alongside them, so that's what I've always interpreted them as.

Holding a real conversation that way sounds like using a half-duplex phone that requires a hangup/reconnect to switch direction.


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