Sam Hotchkiss
- Member Since: August 10th, 2010
- Brunswick, Maine
- samhotchkiss.com
- Jetpack Code Wrangler at Automattic
- @samhotchkiss on WordPress.org and Slack
- Core Contributor
- Community Team
- Plugin Developer
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Committed [1450101] to Plugins Trac:
Update stable tag within 4.1 tag4 weeks ago
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Committed [1445146] to Plugins Trac:
Tag jetpack 4.1 beta 21 month ago
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Committed [1445144] to Plugins Trac:
Jetpack 4.1 Beta 21 month ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016 coming up on October 14th
1 month ago
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Committed [1442195] to Plugins Trac:
Files added/removed for Jetpack 4.1-beta11 month ago
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Committed [1442193] to Plugins Trac:
Jetpack 4.1-beta11 month ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Boston 2016 coming up on July 23rd
1 month ago
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Committed [1440207] to Plugins Trac:
Delete beta tags1 month ago
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Committed [1440206] to Plugins Trac:
Update stable tag1 month ago
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Committed [1440200] to Plugins Trac:
Bump stable tag in branch1 month ago
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Committed [1440198] to Plugins Trac:
Jetpack 4.0.41 month ago
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Committed [1440196] to Plugins Trac:
Jetpack 4.0.41 month ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2016 coming up on March 12th
6 months ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp San Diego 2016 coming up on April 23rd
6 months ago
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Wrote a comment on the post WordPress Importer Redux, on the site Make WordPress Core:
You're amazing, Ryan, well done.9 months ago
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Posted a reply to "Cannot request for API key", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
If you already have bruteprotect installed and working, it will continue to work. That said,…10 months ago
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Posted a reply to "Cannot request for API key", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
We have rebuilt the protect API to improve performance within Jetpack, and we are no…10 months ago
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Posted a reply to "Says it cannot generate a key right now", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Sorry for the late response, but this will not be resolved. BruteProtect will continue to…10 months ago
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Posted a reply to "Login protection in endless redirect loop", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi David-- thanks for your feedback. The logic here is essentially that having your username…11 months ago
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Posted a reply to ""Prove you are human"", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Steve-- when the API is inaccessible for any reason, we show the math captcha…12 months ago
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Posted a reply to "Protect bloating my DB like crazy!", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
If you wanted to just apply the patch directly: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/pull/249812 months ago
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Posted a reply to "Protect bloating my DB like crazy!", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hey Tevya! Transients older than 1 week should be cleared out automatically. I was just…12 months ago
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Created a topic, BruteProtect is no longer supported, on the site WordPress Support Forums
1 year ago
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Posted a reply to "Brute protect knocked down the website", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Sorry about that, I lost track of this conversation. It would be great if you…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to "enabled services/sharing buttons disappeared", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
What's your URL? I'd like to take a look1 year ago
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Posted a reply to "Jetpack Comments failing", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi There-- this is an odd one that I'm unable to reproduce. Would you mind…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to "enabled services/sharing buttons disappeared", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Are Twitter, Facebook, etc still showing up in your publicize settings?1 year ago
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Posted a reply to "Jetpack 3.4 breaks site", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hey All-- we're hard at work on this! Anticipating an update tomorrow to address the…1 year ago
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Posted a reply to "Jetpack 3.4 breaks site", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi sslone-- It's very unlikely that a jetpack issue would be causing you to get…1 year ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp London
1 year ago
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Posted a reply to "question - will this plugin protect from xmlrpc attacks?", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hey Ari-- I'd recommend you read the comments, in particular the one from me :)…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "Brute protect knocked down the website", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi There-- this is odd, 12000 attacks is not inordinately large, and we haven't had…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "question - will this plugin protect from xmlrpc attacks?", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hey Ari! BruteProtect does protect against XML-RPC-- we monitor and block login attempts there. By…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "API Key for multiple sites", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
No, you will need individual API keys for each site, but they are free to…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "IP Whitelist - shows incorrect "your IP address is"", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Did you send in the report from the debug page? We haven't seen anything2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "Your IP has been flagged for potential security violations.", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
The only reason I could see someone still being blocked after having their IP whitelisted…2 years ago
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2015 coming up on March 7th
2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "Blacklist for "abbusing" Brute Protect?", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Abimelex-- I completely appreciate your concern, however, we made a decision long ago to…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "how to know if the plugin is working? como saber se o plugin está funcionando?", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Yes, you are seeing things correctly, and you are protected! Thanks, Sam2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "The Future", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi there-- First off, please refer to our most recent post on the subject: https://bruteprotect.com/the-jetpack-bloat-myth/…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "More questions about BruteProtect and why won't IP blocking work?", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi There-- BruteProtect has zero effect on your htaccess-- if you block IPs in htaccess,…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "IP Whitelist - shows incorrect "your IP address is"", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Roy-- this is interesting and not something we've seen before. I'd like to take…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "Questions about BruteProtect and brute force attacks", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hey Tom! Thanks for using BruteProtect! Some answers: 1) The only issue is that it…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "Whitelist ineffective when IPv4 address is presented in IPv6/embedded format", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Makes sense to me, David-- we have a new release coming today, I'll make sure…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "XMLRPC attack resulting in performance drop", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Jeremy-- Merry Christmas! Thanks for using BP and for your detailed report here! I…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "Application error", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
That's not an issue that BruteProtect generates-- sounds like a host generated error to me!2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "Fairly serious performance issue - auto-loaded options", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Paul-- unfortunately, this has exposed a deeper flaw in the way that WordPress handles…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "SoakSoak attack, it is my website protected with Bruteprotect?", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Ramon-- we're not yet sure what the attack vector is for the soaksoak attack--…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "Change password", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Hi Jeanae-- this would have come as the result of failed logins from your IP.…2 years ago
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Posted a reply to "Cannot access my.bruteprotect.com", on the site WordPress Support Forums:
Once you've gone through that, what happens if you manually try to go to: https://my.bruteprotect.com/dashboard…2 years ago
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