The Security Magic Bullet
Screw input validation, love output normalization.
That was a recent comment on Hacker News, probably made by a programmer. How are there still people that don't understand there's no magic bullet?
- Assume hostility
- Input validation
- Enforce business rules
- Output sanitization
Output normalization fixes your XSS attacks and SQL injections, sure. But it doesn't help at all if I send 'admin=true' to your /users/me/update URL or I give you a comma-separated list of 50,000 emails to add to your mailing list.