Re^4: Allowing regex entries in web form to search database: Risks or gotchas?

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I was trying to find a source supporting the "whitelisting is safer than blacklisting" approach, but alas most links revolved around the question if these terms are racist and should be replaced and by what.

Too much a master-slave dilemma for a shady dark-pinky guy like me.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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Re^5: Allowing regex entries in web form to search database: Risks or gotchas? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 11, 2022 at 09:00 UTC
Blacklist (blocklist, redlist) is always playing catchup.	[reply]

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