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| author | Dave Jachimiak <dave.jachimiak@gmail.com> | 2014-02-14 11:36:03 -0500 |
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| committer | Dave Jachimiak <dave.jachimiak@gmail.com> | 2014-02-14 11:36:03 -0500 |
| commit | 848e377a2017234e3831599346918fb8d413fd28 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/guides/source/security.md b/guides/source/security.md index 70fb066b64..ece431dae7 100644 --- a/guides/source/security.md +++ b/guides/source/security.md @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ Injection is very tricky, because the same code or parameter can be malicious in ### Whitelists versus Blacklists -NOTE: _When sanitizing, protecting or verifying something, whitelists over blacklists._ +NOTE: _When sanitizing, protecting or verifying something, prefer whitelists over blacklists._ A blacklist can be a list of bad e-mail addresses, non-public actions or bad HTML tags. This is opposed to a whitelist which lists the good e-mail addresses, public actions, good HTML tags and so on. Although sometimes it is not possible to create a whitelist (in a SPAM filter, for example), _prefer to use whitelist approaches_: |