By Tom Espiner
Published: Wednesday 14 January 2009
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misceng
Location
UK
Occupation
retired
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That input validation is still a problem is an indictment of the training of programmers of today. In the 1960s when programming was in Basic I was taught how to validate input and had subroutines written to limit length and check the characters in the input. Surely the techniques have advanced since then and should be inbuilt in all programs.
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