[Boston.pm] Historical question: origin of the idea of tainting
Andy Oram <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:29:37 -0400
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For a report I'm writing, I'm trying to trace back the idea of tainted data for security purposes. I know it was in Perl in the 1990s. Does anyone on this list know where it started, where the term came from (it certainly seems like a typical Wall coining), and when it entered Perl? Andy Oram | Editor O'Reilly Media, Inc. | 617-499-7479 | oreilly.com [image: oreilly_email_logo.png] <http://oreilly.com/>