Introduction: The Comfortable Lie
There's a comfortable story developers tell themselves:
"I'm using a modern framework. It handles all that low-level security stuff for me."
And to be fair - it's not entirely wrong. Frameworks like Spring Boot, Django, Laravel, and Angular have matured significantly. They come with CSRF protection, ORM-based SQL injection prevention, output encoding, and a dozen other defaults that would have required manual implementation a decade ago.
But here's the uncomfortable truth:
