CNN IBN Web Team: Boo Boo to you
So, the CNN IBN web team claimed that the open source applications available on the web are not secure enough for use on their own website. So far so good.
Check this out:
http://tech.moneycontrol.com/
How come, their partners MoneyControl.com finds the open source web application WordPress secure enough for a tech Blog on their own site? They even have the CNN IBN logo in the header image.
Maybe they have smarter people working there. In fact, I happen to know one of them. Jayesh Mansukhani has been an online chat buddy since a long time. And I guess I contacted him through my India Broadband Forum.
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By the way, they blocked my comments on Sardesai's blog. Nothing inflammatory, nothing personal; but even though he writes in crap, there is a tacit admission that he's got money and TV exposure to carry his voice. And perhaps raise issues which matter to no one.
I have no personal grouse against CNN; but the fact that the comments being moderated is a BAD idea.
They are aware of the trashing they get; we' d expose their dirty tricks....
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So it's much more about usage & usefulness than about "Security"...
And as for Open Source, IBNLive.com uses enough of that. They're on Apache, PHP and Postgres...ain't that enough to qualify as Open Source Lovers??
My decision to use WordPress for tech.moneycontrol.com has got nothing to do with IBN-LIVE, or the rest of Moneycontrol. It was a question of sheer whiptitude. Getting it up and running, looking good with a custom theme etc. in less than a day.
If I had to integrate it into the rest of the moneycontrol systems, I'd use custom code too.
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Maybe, Abhishek can confirm this thing. Coz I remember hearing this exact logic behind them rejecting WordPress coz it was an open source offering.
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And then, trust me, obfuscation is the first step to security...Wordpress is public code, publically documented, with publically available exploits...if nobody knows what you're using, it's more difficult to hack it than if it's out in the open...
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and well using public code. you are using apache, php and postgres... it is public code which is as prone to publicly available exploit. why not move to .net and use something which is so locked that it is practically unusable without any help from microsoft certified professionals.
anyways, my problem was the pathetic reasoning they gave for not using wordpress. a better would have been...
'we already have many bloggers blogging since quite sometime on our customised CMS. to install wordpress for one blogger won't make any sense.'
and i guess you already know that if a kid from California has his eyes set on breaking your customised CMS, it would hardly take him a couple of hours to find a loophole...
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Though I wouldn't doubt that ever. If someone wants to find loopholes, he can easily do it. I was invited for a blog, which hasnt been set up as yet! I never saw the backend so, I can't comment on their CMS. Further, they need a SPELL CHECKER integrated. Have you seen the grammatical errors creeping in? Though, I dont care now.
Word Press? Publicly available exploits? Can't fix it up? I got an email which said so. It further said that Word Press isn't secure, thrid party application. They haven't seen the code, cant vet it and rah!
No arguments on that. I am not concerned with whatever system you run. We guys are WORDPRESS ADDICTS! It rocks for us. I have used Movable Type and it's sucks to the core.
Open Source rules. Incidentally, the fixes are faster for the Open Source programmes than for anything else.
Well, there seems to be an inherent problem with the IBN website. I did bring it to their notice several times, but it seems that they are not interested to fix it up. So long!
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Even I have got some tricks to disclose which have often been used by IBN. I have also written to Rajdeep....well Who cares.
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