Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151026190758/@comment-26402117-20151029182951

SuperSajuuk wrote: Mfaizsyahmi wrote: This is infringing the liberties and rights of the minority. No it doesn't. Verbatim is a security attack vector and someone could use this to attempt to hack accounts or steal passwords from anyone who goes to a page with the vector placed in it. I am quite happy to see it go, there are way better methods for all the uses of it.

If your use of verbatim can't be replicated, then ask yourself whether you really need that feature or if it is possible to do it in another method entirely that does not compromise the security of other users of the site.

Isn't leaving a security flaw alone infringing the rights of the users of the Wikia domain? And not hypothetically, by law - clause 4 of the EU Data Protection Directive and clause 7 of the UK Data Protection Act declare that personal data must be secured against unauthorised/unlawful loss, destruction or damage. ''EDIT: However as SuperSajuuk corrected in later post, Wikia hosts in the US and follows US law on data protections. The US legislation on these is based on precedent though companies have recieved sucessful lawsuits over this.''

However, I hope that any instances where the secure embedding of social networking or video elements not working are more deeply investigated.

 Speedit   ♞    talk   contribs  18:29, October 29, 2015 (UTC)