Important: It is all about trust

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Originally Posted by Paul M

reading the first post gives the impression of some major security threat or alert, not some minor call back to vb.org.

Parts of first post:

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

The reason for this thread is that, to our own shame, we received recently reports that there are coders who do incorporate hidden functionalities in their modifications. Lucky the type of hidden functions could be considered as relative harmless, but we will nevertheless not tolerate this. [high]I would like to emphasize that this did not sent any security or privacy related information, nor did it in anyway brake the security of your site.[/high]

The discovered hidden functionality where aimed at a backdoor in the services of vBulletin.org itself, and have by now been closed. The effect of this functionality will be corrected by us soon. There has been no negative effects on the boards that are using any of these modifications.