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Without the ability in WordPress to easily specify an alternative plugin repository for automated updates, Matt Mullenweg is basically a living supply chain vulnerability in the WordPress ecosystem.

Put another way: if Matt & turning off access to WordPress dot org demonstrates anything, it's that has a fundamental supply-chain vuln in the form of its total reliance on WordPress dot org for automatic updates. & in Matt's autocratic control of the platform.

I'm gonna revise this a little: I'm still gonna say that Mullenweg himself (& more precisely, his autocratic management style) is a supply chain vulnerability. But I'm also gonna suggest that there's a certain amount of in Automattic setting up WordPress.org & its services to be funded by the grace of Automattic instead of community contributions.

Matt had literally two decades to figure that out & didn't.

wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-

wordpress.orgWP Engine is banned from WordPress.org – WordPress News