You bet they do. For some, hacking code flaws is their ONLY passion! They are different than the bad guy hackers who take sites down because they can and the badguys who are looking for something to steal, like your identity. All of them make site security a problem and when you add "open source" to the mix, it gets pretty interesting because like we have seen with vB recently, when you close one, it motivates hackers to find more that haven't been closed. All operating systems have backdoors and are susceptible to exploitation. So, as you can see, its not just vB, though I would argue that they have prematurely released several versions that should have been tested a LOT better before the release went out the door.
Unfortunately, the WWW can be a dangerous place and you can only do the best you can to keep it safe.
06-10-2008, 10:16 AM
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