taint
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8.9
- noun
- /teɪnt/
- Specialized
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- The software flagged a potential taint on the information received from an untrusted source.
Examples
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He's still feared and hated by many, has yet to save the world, and most people don't know the Taint is gone.
Blog text (9) -
The protection technique is based on very granular run-time taint analysis of an application's data and does not require access or changes to the application's source code.
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Better to attach a stigma, a taint of pollution, to an entire group.
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So Taint Droid updates that file's taint tag with the GPS flag.
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Second, the only protection mechanism provided by the kernel is an information flow control mechanism, which generalizes the intuition behind taint.
Academic text (2011) -
In the coding, an addon attempting to do something addons aren't permitted to is called "taint."
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According to the popup I get when this happens on ElvUI, it's a taint and is something that's typically impossible for addon authors to fix.
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The ADEPT-50 dynamically adjusted labels (essentially taint tracking) using the High-Water-Mark security model back in the late 1960s; the idea has often resurfaced, for instance in IX12 and LOMAC.
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In security protocols, we must check the data's taint before using it to ensure it is safe.
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To prevent breaches, developers implement techniques to track the taint of each data input.
Synonyms
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6.5
Wrong or repeated data added to a dataset that gives wrong results
Surface Forms
Etymology
Taint in computing uses the same image: it marks data like a 'stain' to show it may be unsafe. So a 'tainted' value is data you must check or clean before you use it.