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<node id="340426" title="Re: So, now what are taints?" created="2004-03-28 14:59:03" updated="2004-08-17 09:06:11">
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adrianh</author>
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&lt;p&gt;Tainting is a way of marking information that might be a potential security issue (e.g. provided by the user, can be overridden by a third party, etc.). Trying to use tainted data causes your program to die - preventing any potential damage.&lt;/p&gt;
 
&lt;p&gt;See [perldoc://perlsec] for full details.&lt;/p&gt;</field>
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