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		1amzave on July 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP: The Right Way Indeed, especially coming after this further up the page: > Never ever (ever) trust foreign input introduced to your PHP code. Where'd I put that sense of irony...

ecaron on July 7, 2012 [–]

Except that there's a significant difference between "trust" of input from the user vs. "trust" of the software stack you use as a foundation.

Unless you've read every line of the Linux kernel, we all succumb to the later point sooner or later.

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