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Re:An Ode To W3Schools by pretoriusB on Monday November 19, 2012 @03:25AM (#4803468)
That happens in 99% of PHP+MySQL tutorials out there...

And looking a little closer, even in the most reputable sources, you can found XSS and especially CSRF vulnerabilities aplenty.

People should not get security advice from a beginner's tutorial anyway, even if it covered XSS, it would have tons of other problems.

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Re:An Ode To W3Schools by bbotond on Monday November 19, 2012 @03:33AM (#4803491)
But those tutorials should include a warning like "what we teach here is enough for you to build a nice dog house but using the same techniques on a sky scraper will surely lead to disaster" - and then give you resources to educate yourself further.
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