Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151026190758/@comment-26402117-20151102185439

Ciencia Al Poder wrote: Just a note about security, Verbatim tags, site's JavaScript and MediaWiki pages were always secure if we trust the users allowed to edit the MediaWiki interface. It has now been flagged as insecure because now Wikia doesn't trust admins anymore. And this has changed because some Wikia Staff were hacked by a rogue admin.

The other people claiming it was a rogue admin were misinformed. Those responsible for any of this had scored less than 100 edits in total on the Wikia domain. The cause is not the problem, its the prevention and the effort to seal any and all security holes shut.

I want my account and those of other editors & readers at Wikia to be safe from people who are willing to hunt to exploit security issues and Verbatim. Though I agree that initially the trust was there, this move is about security - not mistrust or a dislike of Verbatim.

PS: When I found out about Verbatim, I thought such an ability was too good to be true - and finding that it is two months later is not much of a suprise.

 Speedit   ♞    talk   contribs  18:54, November 2, 2015 (UTC)