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  • Custom escaping considered harmful - "Applications using 'ad-hoc methods to "escape" strings going into the database, such as regexes, or PHP3's addslashes() and magic_quotes' are particularly unsafe. Since these bypass database-specific code for safe handling of strings, many such applications will need to be re-written to become secure."