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Re: [Json] Security considerations

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Mon, 07 October 2013 04:09 UTC

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What is the argument against including a conventional warning against a
plausible-but-dangerous practice?  The only one I can think of is “everyone
already knows that” which doesn’t seem very strong to me.


On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:

> On Oct 6, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
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> > You mean will not cover might-make-you-safe regex, or will not warn of
> the dangers of eval()?
>
> Correct.
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> --Paul HOffman
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