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by dsrw 1649 days ago
I agree, but certain operations need to safely accept untrusted input if I'm going to handle input at all. Running a regex on user input doesn't mean I trust the input. It means I trust my regex engine. I should be able to trust my logger the same way.
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if your logger is running an eval, you shouldn't trust it one bit