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Is that not a black list? ... you are not affirming equality ... you are affirming inequality

• hug 9y ago
  How do you define a whitelist? A list of items, that, if matched, are allowed? That regex will only positively "match" non-facebook items, and will only block facebook if implemented in a whitelist. I'm just playing the straight man to your joke. Of course it's functionally a blacklist: That's what you asked for.
  • iteriteratedone 9y ago
    Sorry cant drop this one yet My comment is not a joke but a challenge to the parent ... that they are wrong Yes whitelist are safer ... but whitelists can be cumbersome to generate/maintain and slow you down at runtime ... On reddit let this slide , but here we have to correct the flawed thinking. You cant run from engineering problems without consequece So now we have graduated to course 202: how to make a blacklist safe? Check context, and restrict access
    • Nadya 9y ago
      >Check context, and restrict access But then why do you need the blacklist? I refer to this post by vec: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208419 If you think you need a blacklist you should probably be using a whitelist. If your problem can't be solved with a whitelist then it's probably better solved in a way that doesn't involve a blacklist or a whitelist.
    • hug 9y ago
      If it's not a joke, it's at least an exercise in absurdity. I wrote a regex that would allow things that aren't facebook, and then you said "No, you're not allowing things that aren't facebook, you're not allowing things that don't match not being facebook". If it's not a white-list, it's at least an opposite-of-black-list.