A few months ago, the author of a competing plugin (to my own rather more modest efforts), contacted me about a troll he was having trouble with. Said troll was posting negative messages about the competition on various forums, and his theory was that the guy is my supporter.

Somewhat irritating, was the fact he claimed to have found connections between us. Quite how he managed to find a connection I don’t know — given that there were/are none — but more galling was the subsequent request that I post messages to that effect, on all the forums where this muppet had been posting. Needless to say, I was somewhat less than agreeable, and I suspect that my refusal cemented whatever paranoid delusions of persecution he had conjured.

I only bring this up now, because YAK has suddenly become the target of that self-same troll. Or at least, I’m guessing it’s the same twit (given the similarity of name). This time ridiculously claiming that my plugin has somehow opened a gaping security hole in WordPress’s administration panel. Laughable.

I suggest that rather than YAK causing the problem, it’ll be the fact that this individual has a few too many brain-cells short of a functional cranium, and that “password” is rather too simple an administration password.
On the positive side, it does hopefully prove that the troll has nothing to do with me, and is obviously a sad git with far too much spare time on his hands.

UPDATE: just to be thorough, I’ve double-checked some of the access points in YAK where there might’ve been potential for a security hole, and I can’t see anything that might compromise WP’s security. So I return to my earlier description of the poster: a muppet.