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Re:Json ⊄ js by benmmurphy on Friday December 28, 2012 @07:42AM (#4977460)
If you put it in a script tag you need to ensure you escape </script>. Though, it is probably safer to escape <, >, and & just to be sure.
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Re:Json ⊄ js by fforw on Friday December 28, 2012 @08:35AM (#4977607)
The </script> issue is why JSON and Javascript both allow you to escape the slash character with a backslash.

So just going <\/script> is enough.

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