On Dec 10, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote:
On 12/10/07, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Mike McGonagle wrote:
Could someone please explain that IMPORTANCE of worrying about SQL injection? Just how would it effect users of PD?
We don't know what pd users will do with [psql]. Do you?
I guess what I am getting at is that I don't see how we can prevent
people from using this maliciously. If they are creating the SQL
and putting the data into it, how can we stop them from being
idiots? Are you saying that we need to do data checking prior to
the data being sent to the server? Or maybe I am not understanding
what you are getting at...
Using the placeholder stuff will stop SQL injection attacks. The
interfaces we've discussed shouldn't make a difference in terms of
security as long as the placeholder stuff is properly implemented.
.hc
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