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in reply to Re: What's your favourite method of untainting?
in thread What's your favourite method of untainting?

As per WikiPedia Taint means
in computer science, in particular in the Perl programming language, "tainted" data are considered untrusted and are treated with caution
Some Guru may want to add some more information to it, since it is described in a short manner.