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michael.hart · #30 05-15-2009, 09:52 PM

This seems a bit pointless, in my opinion. If a hacker was determined enough (and as this addon becomes used more and more), then I don't see much of a point. They'll just know to check the core file. Your best bet was to keep this to yourself, if your goal was security. Sharing this sort of threw it out of the "Secure" category.

Also, as long as your MySQL server only allows access to your server (and not everyone), (cPanel servers are often configured this way, and you can add exceptions in the cPanel) then even if that have that information, it does them no good.

Also, proper website/server security would make it really difficult for a hacker to upload a file to your server, and even if they did, why bother with this as they probably have full access anyway?

Just my opinion. Take it with a grain of salt

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