Pro PHP Security: From Application Security Principles to the Implementation of XSS Defenses, Second Edition

Background

The classic example of considering differences and similarities in human and computer actions is the Turing Test. This test was first formulated by Alan Turing, a British mathematician, in 1950, when the first glimmerings of so-called artificial intelligence were occupying the minds of some of the brightest and most forward-thinking researchers in the still-young field of computer science. Turing assumed it would be only a short while until machines were capable of the same kind of thinking as humans, and so he devised a test to try to determine just when they had reached that point. His idea was to have a human interrogator pose a series of questions to both a human and a machine, to collect the written responses of each, and to compare ...