Title: Broken security: DO NOT USE
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Broken security: DO NOT USE

 *  [grumpybozo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grumpybozo/)
 * (@grumpybozo)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-security-do-not-use/)
 * Incompatible with force_ssl_login and force_ssl_admin, meaning that it requires
   login BUT requires that you not secure your login and authentication cookies 
   against casual sniffers.

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