This is fun. Network Solutions, not known for their wonderful hosting setup, messed up WordPress configuration, file permissions and basically allowed people hosting on their servers to read everyone else’s authentication information. When it was discovered NetSol tried to spin it as a WordPress problem. WordPress are pissed. But what’s amusing, to me anyway, is their talk of crappy configuration – which they justify with the following WordPress, like all other web applications, must store database connection info in clear text. Encrypting credentials doesn’t matter because the keys have to be stored where the web server...