text: Good AfternoonMy name is Tee. I am the IT Team Lead for the RWB and ACON.network website. Just putting a post here to address some of the concerns about the security of RWB. I have been in APIII for about 7 years. I was around 2 years ago when Sneddon and Rob created the vetting website that got hacked twice. Could be more details, but here is what I know. I was part of the conversations on what needed to be built and how it needed to be built. Sneddon was not keen on taking any advice from anyone. Rob promoted his company as being capable. And so they built a site that collected protected PII that was then posted online. My personal info was also part of the info that was posted.There were several conversations on what happened and some attempts to fix the issue, but the issue was the tech stack that was used.So, what happened…Part of the frontend was built on wix. There was sub site, that collected the vetting information, that was built using WordPress. The email plugin via WordPress had a vulnerability that was exploited. This plugin allowed malware to be installed on the server. That malware collected/recorded information that was then posted online. So, the vulnerability was in the email plugin in WordPress. WordPress at the time had 128 open vulnerabilities. A lesson learned from that is that we should have not been collecting protected PII and thank God no one had answered all of the other questions that were being asked in regards to training, supplies, vehicles, and certifications of various types. If anyone has additional information or corrections to what I just said. Please chime in because understanding what happened 2 years ago is important.The RWB IT Team are IT professionals. We have all been in IT for an average of 22 years. We are all fulltime IT professionals that built RWB and the Acon.network site in our spare time. RWB is built on private server(s). Owned by our team. Everyone one on the team are either APIII, AP Vanguard or Both. The Wix Spaces app for RWB is not needed or required, but just a convenient way to handle payments, send out push notifications, and provide an icon to launch the app. RWB, the site, is not built in or with wix frontend tools. RWB does not require protected PII to be collected.There are many legs to security, the entire tech stack is a huge piece, but people and processes are important as well. Facebook announced two days ago that there are over 400 apps running on Facebook that is stealing private information. We know that the most important is username and passwords. So, this is a billion-dollar company with some major security issues. Microsoft is the number one company with open vulnerabilities. There’s a ton of reasons for that. So, money doesn’t necessarily equate to more secure applications and products. Motorola who is a fortune 500 company has hardware and software with vulnerabilities. In this country, we have critical medical applications and machines that are running software on Windows 7. ACON is looking into accepting additional payment processors since PayPal has been caught in its attempts to penalize folks for freedom of speech.We have 58 people signed up on RWB. We will setup some training sessions here soon. In the initial session we will answers questions around security concerns. We are also looking for folks to help with training and rollout. If you’re interested let me know. Scot has stated that RWB is not mandatory and that’s awesome. We hope to see a lot of folks join so that we can make it an awesome place for Patriots to communicate and collaborate.Have a great weekend