Re: [Json] Security Considerations

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Fri, 07 June 2013 15:59 UTC

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On Jun 7, 2013, at 12:26 AM, Stefan Drees <stefan@drees.name> wrote:

> For me the main points of data interchange and in sequence are:
> 
> 1. Do not parse any untrusted data without preconditioning
> 
> 2. Do not excecute/eval untrusted data
> 
> and trust is sometimes hard to establish ...
> 
> As long as these two points stand out and are not burried inside sample language terms, I am happy with any re-phrasing.

That sounds like a good goal for the section.

--Paul Hoffman