It IS your fault, you mouth-breathing idiot.
In response to: http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2009/09/its_not_your_fault.html
Security is the single most important thing to think about when running a website or blog.
The only, only blame here belongs, 100%, period, end of statement, to the dickwhip that attacked your site.
So, so very wrong. The blame falls on YOU, the end user who decided that Wordpress’ auto-generated password for the admin account was too difficult to remember. It’s YOUR fault for not clicking that one-click auto-update button*.
Y’all are the victims of this, and rather than blaming yourselves, you should be angry. You should be white-hot balls of fucking angry fire, and you should be on the fucking phone to the fucking FBI and letting them do some forensic analysis so the shitheads who did this might one day be locked in a soundproof, windowless room with a 6’8” serial killer with a huge cock and a skull-fucking fetish.
1. Victims, yes. Innocent? No. Absolutely not.
2. Because the FBI tooooootally gives a flying crap about your kitten blog getting hacked. Was money stolen? Massive fraud perpetrated? Did someone die because Aunt Margo’s blog about candle making got defaced?
I didn’t think so.
This idea [is] that if you aren’t locking your site down tighter than Fort-fucking-Knox, you deserve to be attacked.
Most people don’t want “Fort-fucking-Knox” security, most people want “Armored-frickin’-Truck” security. In most cases, “Bike-freaking-Lock” security is more than enough for a website. But if you’re too lazy/stupid to even think about adding “Jewelry-farking-Box” security to your blog, then you DO deserved to get hacked, because maybe you’ll learn some common sense and realize that the internet is a dangerous place.
It’s exactly the same as blaming a woman for getting raped because she wasn’t dressed like a nun and living with her parents,
Wow, seriously?
It is their fault if you have no security, it is their fault if you have fucking stellar security, it is always, always, always their fault.
Wow, I’ll just tell that to my bank the next time some douchebag empties my account. “Well it’s their fault for hacking me even though I was on an open wifi network in the middle of the city, logging in with my password consisting of ‘123456789’”.
Sure, they could stop themselves, but you know as well as I do that the internet is full of psychotic assholes who want nothing more than to ruin your day.
If someone breaks into your site, it is not your fault. There is no room for argument on this, don’t even attempt to justify this to me.
I would really not expect someone in your field to have this mentality.
*and if you weren’t because that would break any customizations you have, you can UPDATE MANUALLY or switch to a platform with fewer vulnerabilities, like say… Tumblr.
