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in 2025? you'd hope not

but also cross-system context switches, amateur RegExp, escape character (ab|mis)use, etc. can make "user-input" propagate farther than any one team's boundaries.

assertions/test coverage/fuzzing at every boundary so user-input taint analysis can't fail is a requirement for a system that passes user data around more than one time or tech stack.



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