[brad_langdon]

You will have to excuse my ignorance but I have no idea what that means.

I just use normal ftp to edit the site, I am guessing sftp is secure ftp but would that really matter as I am only uploading files with it…once they are live is when they get hacked is that not right?

Clear text passwords?

You mean on the database? I just use whatever default settings bbpress operates with.

Sorry for all of the questions, I am investigating this on my own as well so I dont nag you guys too much.

Also not sure what ssh is.