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by nerdchum 1106 days ago
Sanitizing your inputs is a string issue not a data structure issue.

Sanitizing your inputs has been known about for literally almost half a century that should just be default for developers at this point.

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>Sanitizing your inputs has been known about for literally almost half a century that should just be default for developers at this point.

Except if you're a "stupid programmer", in which such defaults are irrelevant to you. In such cases, one can only hope they're relying on tooling that sanitizes as much as possible for them.