I am working on an email program and I want to add a basic way to detect spam based on the domain/sender of the mail. One service that I was looking at was gossip (http://gossip-project.sourceforge.net/) but I don't want to go to the hassle of setting up a dedicated Gossip server. I know that there are a lot of email blacklists (DNSBL's)...
which is the preferred approach in sanitizing inputs coming from the user?
thank you!
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I have a PHP script that is supposed to check for "valid" human names, but recently cracked against a name with a space, so we added spaces to our validator.
Rather than doing this, is there a way to add a blacklist to CakePHP's validator to block all "invalid" characters, rather than allowing "valid" ones?
NOTE: I know how to do this...
I've been tasked with implementing a blacklist-based profanity filter for a Rails app. I know there are a ton of issues with blacklist-based filtering, but the decision was made above my head. Challenge: I'm looking for a good list of Spanish profanity to run into the filter. For English, we're building on a list which exhaustively li...