By gray97 on

Just wondering, if the comments were disabled, are any security problems lessened or minimized?

Thanks...gray97

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styro commented

Two ways of looking at it:

Yes - the less code you run, and the less people can do with your site, the more secure it should be (theoretically).

No - if there were any known security problems with comments, there would be a patch out for them.

So - there are no 'known' problems minimised by disabling comments, but there might be some 'unknown' ones that are. You won't really know for sure until a future patch for the coment module comes out. Unknowns will always be unknowns.

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Michael M commented

Computer law: any code can be hacked into, with a determined hacker.

But, Drupal is very secure. Because it is open source, there are always risks. You should regularly update drupal and signup for the security announcements at http://drupal.org/security

If the code is very secure, people can always administer DoS attacks, causing your server or site to go down.

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gray97 commented

Thanks a lot, I understand.

gray97