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by speeder 4880 days ago
Beside the link bait title (right now "3 Lines of Code to Rank a Website to 1# on Google"), I found it very misleading that the article mentions that a CWS being open source is a problem because it can be exploited.

It is implying security by obscurity, and this is always bad advice, obscuring your source code, won't make it safer, quite the opposite, it will make easy to if someone find a vulnerability, you won't have enough resources to close it fast enough.

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I am not implying this at all. In fact, I am a huge fan of open source software. I simply offer the advice to check what you are using first as there can be issues, as reported.