In reply to Otto.

That is awesome Otto, thanks for that. This is exactly what I'm talking about, about being serious, and things are like a big government!

How is expanding the team going to make the plugins 100% safe? Can you guarantee 100% safety, even just for the repository plugins? You simply can't, there are always going to be those insecure plugins that will fall through the cracks. And how are we going to be protected from third party plugins, like from Envato and elsewhere? Even if the repositories are 100% cleaned up, WordPress itself will still remain unsafe.

Some people suggested that by doing what I suggested (look first reply above, WordPress not allowing unsafe plugins and themes to get activated), we might get a lot of false positives. And they might be right, but there is an easy solution for that too. The site admin can overwrite the core's decision in not activating a certain theme or plugin, especially if it gets a false positive. And trust me, even with false positives, it will force the plugin developers to write cleaner codes.

I can't see any other way to make WordPress secure. Your answer to this overall WordPress security issue proves one my points exactly. Let's face it, the people in charge are simply not serious about security, because what you are doing with the redesign is simply not enough, not by a longshot. And by saying otherwise, it's really insulting to me, since it questions my level of intelligence.

In fact, if WordPress does what I'm suggesting, you don't have to expand the team, in fact you don't even have to monitor anything, because unsafe plugins won't be able to be used anyways, since WordPress will refuse to activate them. Again, this will never happen, since it makes too much sense, and like governments, we don't like results, just meaningless activity, and the false sense of something is being done, while in the meantime the opposite is the truth.

I want to sincerely apologize for my brashness, I need to get attention to this subject (and hopefully not me). I want someone in real power, to get what I'm suggesting, and run with it and get 100% credit for it too, and forget even my existence. I really hope Otto, that person is you, I have read many of your posts in the past, and I think you are one of the people I need to grab attention to this very serious problem.