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I interpreted that one (perhaps too charitably) as being about business logic flaws, design decisions that are inherently dangerous, that sort of thing.

i.e. most of the other things on the list are issues that were introduced unintentionally, and this one is about decisions made by designers and developers that were themselves the problem.




Yup this is what I read, and covers a lot of security reviews I have come across, where someone requests some functioanlity, such as password recovery, or some promotional code, and someone else discovers how it can be exploited.

I'd say long overdue.




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