[Floris]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

The fact that you install any software, could always possibly open you to unknown harmfull actions by the coder of that software. This is not really something new.

We have (until now) never found any hacks released here that had harmfull hidden features. My list is what could possibly happen if someone means harm.

PS Even if it is said as a joke, it doesn't look good on us if we would abuse this issue to spread negative feelings about a competitor in the forum business, and i would like to ask all not to make such comments anymore.

Let's stick to comments about our own community.

Nope, I can assure you that unless it slipped by me there are no 2.x or 3.0.x resources that did this. It's a trend that's started to develop ever since 3.5 went stable.

Again, the issue here is that it is about undocumented functionality and that unfortunatly it is to better the author; but no security breach was added to your forum upon installing, nor was any data shared or backdoor installed.

And finally, as mentioned in the announcement we will listen to their side of the story. Surely as Paul M suggests his motives were different from a few others. Nevertheless it is something that people have noticed and raised concern about. I think the vBorg staff is on top of things and updated their site policy in regards to these type of things and automatically included optional misuse of undocumented features; Saving them the future discussion of when people decide to do include backdoors or data-mining code, etc.