I was hoping to see an explanation for why the pattern is prevalent, but the author does not know.
"One of my fundamental rules of system design is when people keep doing it wrong, the people are right and your system or idea is wrong."
I am not sure under what circumstances this is true, but for security it is definitely false. People keep forgetting to sanitize inputs, for example. Does that render input sanitization a broken idea?
"One of my fundamental rules of system design is when people keep doing it wrong, the people are right and your system or idea is wrong."
I am not sure under what circumstances this is true, but for security it is definitely false. People keep forgetting to sanitize inputs, for example. Does that render input sanitization a broken idea?