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Re:Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild by Goronmon on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @02:45PM (#19861724)
Filtering crap like this sounds reasonable but very quickly becomes an exercise in what I call "Giving a mouse a cookie." Now you have a huge complex chunk of code to parse and filter URLs/URIs and every look-alike you can think of; Did you remember that automatic deserialization that kicked in when your values were sent to a callback?

This sounds an awful lot like how software development in general works...

Isn't all software just some version of "Giving a mouse a cookie."?

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