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it's not your fault

So with the current Wordpress vulnerability and attacks, I see a lot of people who seem to be blaming themselves for not 'doing more' to have prevented getting attacked.

"I should have been more paranoid about security"
"I should have had better backups"
"I should have patched immediately"

From me, to all of you, including Robert Scoble and Andy Ihnatko: Shut up. You're wrong.

Let me explain. While things like being more on top of patches, thinking more about security, and better backups are good,
(although backups are not a security issue as much as a "shit breaks" issue), the fact you got broken into is.not.your.fault.

Even if you were way behind in patching, and your administrator password was "password", it's not your fault. Some fucking douchebag who should have sluiced down their mother's gullet with their 23452345 other loser siblings broke into your shit, and fucked it up. It is their fault. It is not Wordpress's fault either. Wordpress did not take the time to break into your stuff. The only, only blame here belongs, 100%, period, end of statement, to the dickwhip that attacked your site.

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.

If there is one thing about geeks that fucking pisses me off, more than Enderle, Thurrot, and all the other NMDs combined it is this...blame the victim mentality. This idea that if you aren't locking your site down tighter than Fort-fucking-Knox, you deserve to be attacked. 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, or blaming someone for getting mugged because they know that part of town is bad, or blaming James Byrd for getting dragged to death by three racist assholes because he should have known better than to get a ride from three racist shitheads. If someone breaks into your web site, your email server, your file server, it is their fault. 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.

You weren't being a tease, lookin' all sexy at them with your data right there for the taking. They did not have to fuck with your stuff. They chose to do that. It is their fault. Period. The way I see people blaming themselves for this makes me want to vomit, then ask them if they think that women who get drunk at a party deserve to be gang-raped.

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.

Not.Your.Fault.

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So with the current Wordpress vulnerability and attacks, I see a lot of people who seem to be blaming themselves for not 'doing more' to have prevented getting attacked.\n\n\"I should have been more paranoid about security\"\n\"I should have had better backups\"\n\"I should have patched immediately\"\n\nFrom me, to all of you, including Robert Scoble and Andy Ihnatko: Shut up. You're wrong.\n\nLet me explain. While things like being more on top of patches, thinking more about security, and better backups are good, \n(although backups are not a security issue as much as a \"shit breaks\" issue), the fact you got broken into is.not.your.fault.\n\nEven if you were way behind in patching, and your administrator password was \"password\", it's not your fault. Some fucking douchebag who should have sluiced down their mother's gullet with their 23452345 other loser siblings broke into your shit, and fucked it up. It is their fault. It is not Wordpress's fault either. Wordpress did not take the time to break into your stuff. The only, only blame here belongs, 100%, period, end of statement, to the dickwhip that attacked your site.\n\nY'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.\n\nIf there is one thing about geeks that fucking pisses me off, more than Enderle, Thurrot, and all the other NMDs combined it is this...blame the victim mentality. This idea that if you aren't locking your site down tighter than Fort-fucking-Knox, you deserve to be attacked. 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, or blaming someone for getting mugged because they know that part of town is bad, or blaming James Byrd for getting dragged to death by three racist assholes because he should have known better than to get a ride from three racist shitheads. If someone breaks into your web site, your email server, your file server, it is their fault. 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.\n\nYou weren't being a tease, lookin' all sexy at them with your data right there for the taking. They did not have to fuck with your stuff. They chose to do that. It is their fault. Period. The way I see people blaming themselves for this makes me want to vomit, then ask them if they think that women who get drunk at a party deserve to be gang-raped.\n\nIf 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.\n\nNot.Your.Fault.