Wiki Idea Shot Down
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@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
This falls under "not a plausible excuse." He doesn't appear to really know what was a viable bluff and what would make him look foolish.
Alright I get that. Could be right, I really don't know. I just don't think PHP being insecure should be a reason. He also said he never liked it since the last web guy installed Wordpress to play around and they ended up with pharmaceutical ads constantly. That is just the web guy not knowing how to harden Wordpress and Apache though and php has nothing to do with that.
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@dashrender said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
@jmoore said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
So as you can imagine I have a question if anyone knows. I don't see how PHP can be insecure and that vulnerable with as much infrastructure that uses it.
This falls under "not a plausible excuse." He doesn't appear to really know what was a viable bluff and what would make him look foolish.
Maybe he doesn't need to because he's the boss, and was just giving any excuse to make you go away
Sounding incompetent is never smart, boss or not. You don't want someone documenting your lack of understanding for when you go to HIS boss to ask for a promotion since YOUR boss doesn't know he's doing.
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@nerdydad said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
Probably would have come back and asked him what he considers to be a secure technology to his vulnerability scans without sounding insubordinate. This way, you can sound like you're trying to be a team player and still help the company.
What does he consider secure anyways? HTML5?
Another thing is, if they are already in the network then they already have the upper hand.
Well I was trying to be a team player mostly and trying to do something that I really thought was a good idea to show people I can think about an issue they have complained about before and come up with a solution. I would like to be an admin someday so I try to learn as much as I can and think about my organization's issues.
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@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
@jmoore said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
So as you can imagine I have a question if anyone knows. I don't see how PHP can be insecure and that vulnerable with as much infrastructure that uses it.
This falls under "not a plausible excuse." He doesn't appear to really know what was a viable bluff and what would make him look foolish.
No he knows. His internal built website is more secure than all of PHP......
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@jmoore said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
He also said he never liked it since the last web guy installed Wordpress to play around and they ended up with pharmaceutical ads constantly. That is just the web guy not knowing how to harden Wordpress and Apache though and php has nothing to do with that.
That's like saying "I don't like Ford because the last time I rode in one we went to a movie and I didn't enjoy it." Either he knows he's being insanely irrational or he REALLY doesn't know how this stuff works.
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@dashrender said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
Maybe he doesn't need to because he's the boss, and was just giving any excuse to make you go away
You could be entirely right there Dash. Telling me php was insecure just tells me that whoever set it up did something wrong with whatever app it is working with.
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@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
Sounding incompetent is never smart, boss or not. You don't want someone documenting your lack of understanding for when you go to HIS boss to ask for a promotion since YOUR boss doesn't know he's doing.
I certainly get that and had no intention to imply that or put him on the spot. I just presented the wiki I had worked long and hard on to him then he asked if it was built on php which I answered yes to. You know the rest
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@jmoore said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
@dashrender said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
Maybe he doesn't need to because he's the boss, and was just giving any excuse to make you go away
You could be entirely right there Dash. Telling me php was insecure just tells me that whoever set it up did something wrong with whatever app it is working with.
It tells you that he either doesn't know how any of it works, or he doesn't know what is plausible. Either way... he doesn't know enough to have a conversation about it and sound like he's aware of what you are discussing.
Much like AshleyJR in the recent SW RAID thread. Huge thread about RAID, turns out he doesn't even know what RAID 1 is so where his math is coming from no one knows.
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@jmoore said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
I certainly get that and had no intention to imply that or put him on the spot.
Sounds like you didn't. His lack of basic knowledge in the area combined with wanting to push an agenda without adequate reasoning put him on the spot, most likely.
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@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
That's like saying "I don't like Ford because the last time I rode in one we went to a movie and I didn't enjoy it." Either he knows he's being insanely irrational or he REALLY doesn't know how this stuff works.
Well i can't believe that he doesn't know how it works so he most likely just didn't like the idea for whatever reason and that was the first thing he thought of.
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First of all, you can keep your internal documentation site, well... internal. No chance of pharma ads then!
Second, I purposely moved away from mediawiki. I couldn't stand it anymore, and neither could anyone else.
A wiki-style Wordpress site has been a godsend. Copy/paste in anything from clipboard... pics, screenshots, videos... even formatting from the web or Word. It's stupid easy and fast to make a very readable wiki page. What takes 5 minutes to do on our Wordpress wiki can take hours on mediawiki. That's not an exaggeration, I mean that literally.
Third, Wordpress is EXTREMELY secure, more-so than almost every other platform out there. Millions and millions of sites are using it without any security issue at all. Only the people who don't properly secure and maintain it get victimized... and rightfully so!
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@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
It tells you that he either doesn't know how any of it works, or he doesn't know what is plausible. Either way... he doesn't know enough to have a conversation about it and sound like he's aware of what you are discussing.
Alright I understand that. You can't know about everything so no big deal. Was just hoping I wasn't making myself look foolish to management by presenting my idea. Thanks and appreciate the comments
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@tim_g said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
Third, Wordpress is EXTREMELY secure, more-so than almost every other platform out there. Millions and millions of sites are using it without any security issue at all. Only the people who don't properly secure and maintain it get victimized... and rightfully so!
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/4096/Wordpress-Wordpress.html?vendor_id=2337
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@jmoore said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
Sounding incompetent is never smart, boss or not. You don't want someone documenting your lack of understanding for when you go to HIS boss to ask for a promotion since YOUR boss doesn't know he's doing.
I certainly get that and had no intention to imply that or put him on the spot. I just presented the wiki I had worked long and hard on to him then he asked if it was built on php which I answered yes to. You know the rest
I'm guessing Scott is write, he has no idea what those things are - and all he knew is that PHP was the old site, and he had ads and he was unhappy, so he put 1 + 1 together and said what he said...
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@tim_g said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
First of all, you can keep your internal documentation site, well... internal. No chance of pharma ads then!
Sure I get that. I had intended it be used by the organization and stay within the firewall so no chance of things like pharmaceutical ads
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@jmoore said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
It tells you that he either doesn't know how any of it works, or he doesn't know what is plausible. Either way... he doesn't know enough to have a conversation about it and sound like he's aware of what you are discussing.
Alright I understand that. You can't know about everything so no big deal. Was just hoping I wasn't making myself look foolish to management by presenting my idea. Thanks and appreciate the comments
No, but there is a correct way to respond to things that you know and a way not to. Bluffing is not the way to do it.
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@grey said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
@tim_g said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
Third, Wordpress is EXTREMELY secure, more-so than almost every other platform out there. Millions and millions of sites are using it without any security issue at all. Only the people who don't properly secure and maintain it get victimized... and rightfully so!
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/4096/Wordpress-Wordpress.html?vendor_id=2337
hmmm....Did you bother to look at any of those? They are all old vulnerabilities from versions of WordPress you should not be using anymore. If you get hit, your fault!
Edit: Literally, like every single one of them!
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@tim_g said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:
A wiki-style Wordpress site has been a godsend. Copy/paste in anything from clipboard... pics, screenshots, videos... even formatting from the web or Word. It's stupid easy and fast to make a very readable wiki page. What takes 5 minutes to do on our Wordpress wiki can take hours on mediawiki. That's not an exaggeration, I mean that literally.
Always willing to try new things. Do you remember any of the plugin names that made this "wiki-style" ?
Also I like mediawiki because it is much easier to navigate and get to the area you need than is Wordpress from what I have seen anyway. Thats why I chose a wiki for this project.
