Magic Quotes Corrupts 10M Database Records With Backslashes?!

MAGIC QUOTES HELL! Double-escaping for 3 years! Every apostrophe becomes \\\! 10M articles, comments, pages UNREADABLE! $8.7M manual cleanup! 6 months to fix! Migration lead FIRED!

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