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What is Tinfoil Hat?

April 26, 2017Hat tinfoil

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What is Tinfoil Hat?

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Tinfoil Hat aims to provide users with more configuration options regarding what information is sent by WordPress to sites other than your own. For the time being, Tinfoil Hat provides two major features: • Control over update requests (WordPress 2.3 only) • Enable or disable checking for WordPress updates • Enable or disable checking for plugin updates • Whether or not to send the version of PHP when checking updates • Whether or not to send your PHP locale when checking updates • Whether or not to send your blog’s character encoding when checking updates • Allows you to spoof your blog URL when checking updates (empty = don’t send) • Control over pulling remote dashboard information. If you know of any other feature that makes an external request, and cannot be disabled or controlled through WordPress’ regular user interface, please let me know.