When something is difficult and/or dangerous and needs to be done repeatedly.

When "human factors" mean that even the most god-like perfectionist can have a bad day.

When simple economic factors prevent "proper code reviews and audit" with experienced and security trained peers. Or the hiring of expensive external expertise.

When programmer turnover can be high.

Simple logic and long-standing IT practice suggests that coding it once, getting it right, using it everywhere is the way to go.

It is much easier to review code to check that the appropriate routine was called to sanitise all external data, than it is to inspect and verify that they way the sanitisation has been done is correct. Especially if the use of the sanitised data is to pass it to an external module - possibly third-party sourced.

And I do get it? I just happen to think that you are wrong. {sigh}

In reply to Re: �Re: Re: �Re: Re: �Re: Re^2: Untainting safely. (b0iler proofing?) by BrowserUk
in thread Untainting safely. (b0iler proofing?) by BrowserUk

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