Magic quotes: Tool of Satan or safety net for imbys?

Posted by Madfish on 1253015215
Just found that my server has magic quotes enabled. I've been looking at data sanitisation and validation lately, and my books pretty much say 'magic quotes are evil turn them off'.

Which is fine if the software (think modules) you are running properly escape and validate data, but as we know sometimes they don't.

So what to do - leave it on, or turn it off? What do you do?

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