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Sure, it could be on by default but easy to turn off if you wanted to.

Thinking about it again probably it'd be best as a per-repro flag that made a little button appear somewhere saying 'security', 'code police' or something similar, leading to more info. Obviously it'd take a bit of work and generate some false-positives, but I could see a system like this being really handy if they accepted open contributions for filters, even if it was opt-in it would probably still help a lot of people.

Re dirty hacks, I guess I wouldn't publish things like that to github, I'd keep them in a local or private repo, as they're not for sharing. If they are for sharing in spite of vulnerabilities, turning off a warning shouldn't be too much hardship for you, and it could actually help others looking at the code quickly tell it wasn't to be used in production as it would mark it as unsafe.



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