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For wordpress user, like to download themes for your blog ?  How about you read this 1st :

WordPress is growing quickly – both as a hosted platform and also via standalone blog installations. The rapid growth and its open, flexible approach to blog design, means it may become a target for hackers who embed malicious code within themes they distribute.

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Thanks to the media, the word “hacker” has gotten a bad reputation. The word summons up thoughts of malicious computer users finding new ways to harass people, defraud corporations, steal information and maybe even destroy the economy or start a war by infiltrating military computer systems. While there’s no denying that there are hackers out there with bad intentions, they make up only a small percentage of the hacker community.

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Many computer programmers insist that the word “hacker” applies only to law-abiding enthusiasts who help create programs and applications or improve computer security.
Anyone using his or her skills maliciously isn’t a hacker at all, but a cracker.
Crackers infiltrate systems and cause mischief, or worse. Unfortunately, most people outside the hacker community use the word as a negative term because they don’t understand the distinction between hackers and crackers.

The spam in Gmail is also the subject of a promotional video that encourages to use Gmail if you want to “get back your time”. The video reminded me of an old email account from my ISP: it received so much spam that it was almost impossible to find the genuine mail and the 10 MB of storage were insufficient to collect all this junk.

A German Tor node operator has shut down his server after a confrontation with law enforcement agents that resulted from a bomb threat relayed through his exit node.

I’ve shut down my Tor-server. I can’t do this any more, my wife and I were scared to death. I’m at the end of my civil courage. I’ll keep engaged in the Tor-project but I won’t run a server any more. Sorry. No.

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Now, not only can’t you send certain filenames with queries (e.g. “download.php?”) over MSN, you can’t even send *any URL with a .info domain*. This affects all clients, including Adium and Pidgin, because it’s done by the MSN server.

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below text also known effected from censoring :

• profile.php? (including ‘?’)
• download.php? (including ‘?’)
• gallery.php
• pics.php
• ListAllTopics.php
• .scr

and more.