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The marketing strategy of a new WordPress security provider, Snicco, is largely built around pretending to not understand how security actually works. It is a strategy that works pretty well, since people who are interested in security, but not yet very knowledgeable, often won’t understand that they are being misled.
In the latest incident, Snicco is pretending to not understand why information, including API keys, has to be available in plaintext. They claim to have a new feature of their Fortress plugin, which solves that. [Read more]