How secure is wordpress please

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  privateandanonymous · Member · Jun 30, 2021 at 9:02 pm

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  Hi

  I am making a blog bringing to light awful things happening inside religious places. This religious group has no boundaries in what it will do to get the information deleted.

  Therefore I need to know if it is easy to:
  -break through an anonymous profile discovering the persons identity
  -convince wordpress that I have broken terms of service and get the information suppressed like that
  – take over the account claiming to be someone who has forgotten their password.
  – threaten wordpress with being sued if the information isnt removed.

  thank you

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 30, 2021 at 10:54 pm

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  First of all, we take security very seriously here: https://wordpress.com/support/security/

  Now, let me address your 4 points specifically:

  1. You have full control over the information in your profile. What is exposed, or could be linked to you, is entirely up to you.

  2. That would only work if you actually break our terms of service: https://wordpress.com/tos/

  3. You will need access to the email address on your account to reset your password. If you do not have access to that email, we only accept the two alternative proofs of ownership listed at https://wordpress.com/support/account-recovery/#account-recovery-form

  4. This should give you some peace of mind about that: https://transparency.automattic.com/landing/