That is true. What I wanted to say is, that I would like to prevent easy (automatic) identifying of any software framework or technology in use. This includes bootstrap although itself should not have a security risk (as far as I know).
2012/11/1 Barry vd. Heuvel <[email protected]> > Why security? Bootstrap isn't used for any backend services, it is only a > front-end framework. > > > > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Andreas Behrens < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> ..even on twitter.com bootstrap is not recognized by wappalyzer. >> >> >> 2012/11/1 Andy <[email protected]> >> >>> Often the identifiers are only small parts of the software, so I guess >>> it should be much easier than renaming everything. For example, >>> woopra.com is using bootstrap and it is not recognized by wappalyzer >>> as bootstrap. So they must have changed something to prevent it. I >>> want to hide such identifiers for security and competition reasons. >>> >>> On 31 Okt., 23:28, iange87 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I'd guess they look for the bootstrap components etc in the source >>> code. >>> > I'm curious why you'd want to hide it though? If you want to prevent >>> it, >>> > you'd need to go through and rename everything. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:30:42 PM UTC, Andy wrote: >>> > >>> > > Hi, I am wondering how websites using twitter bootstrap are >>> identified. >>> > > Webservices like buildwith or wappalyzer can identify sites using >>> bootstrap >>> > > automatically. So, how do they do it and what to do to prevent it? >>> > >>> > > Thanks for any help >>> >> >> >
