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by ceejayoz 5280 days ago
> These are not covered as part of the PCI compliance requirements, as they're not compliance related - there's no way to effectively prove you have mitigated an "unknown unknown" (to quote Mr. Rumsfeld).

PCI's reasoning behind requirements to prevent cross-site-scripting and similar attacks aren't really "unknown unknowns".