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The lack of a 100% guarantee is entirely the problem.

If you get to 99% that's still a security hole, because an adversarial attacker's entire job is to keep on working at it until they find the 1% attack that slips through.

Imagine if SQL injection of XSS protection failed for 1% or cases.



Even if they get it to 99.9999% (ie 1 in a million)

That’s still gonna be unworkable for something deployed at this scale, given this amount of access to important stuff.




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