To affect or associate with something undesirable or reprehensible. An undesirable or corrupting influence or association. Wanted to avoid the taint of an accounting scandal. An undesirable quality; a defect or shortcoming. To make morally corrupt. To sully or stain. To become tainted. An infectious or contaminating trace; infection, decay, etc. Each system component cannot fully validate input.
The concept of taint, therefore, is to mark particular inputs as having been entered by the user. Then, only a thorough deconstructing and reconstructing of the information can remove the taint. Although some programming languages such as Perl automate this kind of tracking, other languages such as C need manual tracking. Related to vulnerabilities used by crackers to break into systems; weak or insufficient validation of user input. Far too often, programmers expect that users will enter proper input.
This leads to another problem: Programmers tend to omit critical system components to check for malicious users taking special care to craft input designed to exploit a system. The issue with input validation is that software system components reading and interpreting the input just do not know enough to properly validate it. Graham, R. Hacking Lexicon. Examples of taint. On the other hand, purists felt that such commercialization tainted the true pursuit of natural philosophy.
From the Cambridge English Corpus. Released from its own taint , prenatal testing could more effectively facilitate women's reproductive freedom and the many important ways that freedom ramifies through women's lives. Unlike poverty, disability is seen as a taint that is difficult or impossible to purge.
The work of their predecessors was tainted, either by censorship of what they wrote or - more seriously - by political control of the basic research itself. The reputation of the violin was tainted by its connection with travelling musicians. For some people, the symbol of the nation, the dynasty, was threatened and in danger of becoming tainted.
It was tainted by association with small farmers and commoners, and was a nuisance to estate proprietors. They are a reflection of the perpetrators' self-image based on the desire for exculpation and tainted by retrospection. No hint of dishonesty, let alone criminality, had ever tainted the family. First, there were those who considered children to be 'little devils', tainted by original sin. Rainwater drained from the hut roofs into tanks was sometimes tainted with salt and fragments of seaweed after gales.
All art in the novel, including this phase of charitable art, is tainted by its association with treacherous fashionable society.
If this is the case, the shareholders' pensioners consent to rules voted by pension fund managers is ' tainted ' by a conflict of interest. There's also as construct to convert tainted data to un-tainted form so that dangerous functions can be used on it. The feeling that all doubtful subjects were tainted by association with each other was very strong among scientists. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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