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Smibs on Code: Filtering user data

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By Forrest - April 29th, 2009

There is a major security concern when it comes to displaying text provided by a user. Ruby on Rails does a good job of keeping your MySQL code sanitized, but web browsers are still a source of concern. It is VERY easy for a hacker to write HTML or JavaScript into a text field. You [...]