use of perl taint mode

dharanivasan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: use of perl taint mode by lakshmananindia (Chaplain) on Dec 09, 2008 at 06:29 UTC
Perl Taint is having some basics about Perl taint.	[reply]
Re: use of perl taint mode by Anonymous Monk on Dec 09, 2008 at 07:16 UTC
to keep you from performing risky operations, see perlsec	[reply]
Re: use of perl taint mode by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Dec 09, 2008 at 09:14 UTC
It's to help protect you from both yourself and to a certain degree, malicious users - esp. in a CGI context. It does this by enforcing a set of rules that you need to follow as a pre-requisite to your code compiling e.g. checking the validity of scalars, directory permissions etc. etc.. A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]