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My problem with this is another howler for security:

Creating something that already exists.

Although OWASP are not legally mandated, they are the most respected go-to people for this kind of stuff and have much more exposure that your "guide" ever will, it also has a much greater level of review and scrutiny so instead to trying to help by increasing the web noise level and possibly making your own mistakes/ommissions (some of which are mentioned below), why not instead get engaged into the existing community and increase the quality of that if needed?



ISTM I've seen some rather trenchant criticism of OWASP's lists in the past. Maybe they've improved, but are they really a "respected go-to"?


As a basic starting point OWASP's top-ten list is fine. I use it when doing intro web-security sessions as a structured way to start people thinking about the things that can go wrong, and I like it for that purpose because some of its items are vague enough to allow good open-ended discussions that take people out of the "just check these boxes" mindset and into full-blown paranoia.

I typically follow it up with a rundown of less-obvious things drawn from my experiences with Django, to point out that even when you cover the OWASP checklist-y stuff you still very easily have major issues.




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