> would be interested in specifics here Magic quotes would be the first one I can think of off the top of my head, which incidentally, was made a default becau

> would be interested in specifics here Magic quotes would be the first one I can think of off the top of my head, which incidentally, was made a default because the mysql api in PHP was so prone to sql injections, that PHP decided to automatically escape all user input as a way to protect inexperienced programmers. Pretty much everyone agrees magic quotes were a bad idea and they were eventually deprecated in 5.3 and removed entirely in 5.4.