vb Security compromised?

[steven s]

Originally Posted by merk

That statement is misleading - they are believed to be secure, they may infact have significant vulnerabilities at the time of your post (which of course the vendor may not know about).

Since we can't look into the future, they are secure based on the present. I understand what you are saying though.

Pcparts,
Don't assume something is safe just because it is on vb.org.
Leaving HTML on can open up your board to problems, so I'm told.
I believe there was a security issue with someone's shoutbox that led to sites being hacked and redirected.