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diff --git a/guides/source/security.textile b/guides/source/security.textile index c065529cac..ac55d60368 100644 --- a/guides/source/security.textile +++ b/guides/source/security.textile @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ h2. Ruby On Rails Security Guide -This manual describes common security problems in web applications and how to avoid them with Rails. If you have any questions or suggestions, please -mail me, Heiko Webers, at 42 {_et_} rorsecurity.info. After reading it, you should be familiar with: +This manual describes common security problems in web applications and how to avoid them with Rails. After reading it, you should be familiar with: * All countermeasures _(highlight)that are highlighted_ * The concept of sessions in Rails, what to put in there and popular attack methods @@ -628,7 +627,7 @@ h4. Whitelists versus Blacklists -- _When sanitizing, protecting or verifying something, 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), _(highlight)prefer to use whitelist approaches_: +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), _(highlight)prefer to use whitelist approaches_: * Use before_filter :only => [...] instead of :except => [...]. This way you don't forget to turn it off for newly added actions. * Use attr_accessible instead of attr_protected. See the mass-assignment section for details |