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Because reforming all possible aggressors ever is an uphill battle you'll never solve. Imagine you have an API that receives a POST with some JSON. Every time
by orik 11y ago
Because reforming all possible aggressors ever is an uphill battle you'll never solve.
Imagine you have an API that receives a POST with some JSON. Every time your API receives a malformed POST, your application crashes or hangs. Do you a) try to do your best to make sure no one ever POSTS to your uri with malformed data, or do you b) rewrite your API to be more robust and send back an error code when malformed input is received rather than crashing?
Does that analogy make any sense or is it too far fetched?
- coldpie 11y ago> Because reforming all possible aggressors ever is an uphill battle you'll never solve. I don't believe this is true. Human behavior can change. Relative to its levels 500 years ago, we've all-but eliminated physical violence in first-world countries. I don't think it's much of a stretch to believe we can all-but eliminate emotional violence as well. We're dealing with human beings, so I didn't read your JSON analogy, sorry.
- venomsnake 11y ago> We're dealing with human beings, so I didn't read your JSON analogy, sorry. Unreliable, unpredictable, illogical, making no sense and you never has exact idea which rules they obey at the moment and what output they will generate. So human beings indeed sound like Javascript or PHP ... [1] [1] 10 years experience with php and JS.
- splouk 11y agoI like it.