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  • The best way I can explain this to a layman will only work if you watch american football.

    What is a “catch”?

    We can call a catch a catch, but unless we go further and state things like “must have control of the ball”, “must have one foot inbounds” etc etc etc, we have an incomplete rule that will allow for things we did not intend. So we narrow the existing rule, because ostensibly it is what we meant, but we need to be more specific to communicate the full idea than we originally believed.

    In basketball… What is a travel? Seems straightforward…

















  • Frankly to suggest that an enterprise firewall would be susceptible to a simple path traversal attack is insane. Unless there’s the most embarrassing news story of the decade im missing? That kind of input validation is baked into basically everything these days.

    Maybe you’ll land input validation using quadruple URL encoded ‘…/’ or something but even still I’d doubt that.

    So the person who replied to you is 100% correct in what it’s about, but it doesn’t really explain the comic. Unless it was made in like a decade ago.