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Re: [Json] Security Considerations

Gonzalo Salgueiro <gsalguei@cisco.com> Wed, 05 June 2013 18:06 UTC

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Completely agree.  Needs some serious updating and would love to see it be more JS agnostic.

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On Jun 5, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com> wrote:

> The section on security considerations is completely inadequate. It is describing a use of JavaScript eval that is now considered to be a very bad practice, and it provides no advice for other languages.
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> It should instead be advising care when constructing JSON texts, insisting on proper encoding practices and avoidance of concatenation.
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