Using a whitelist allows the application to accept only known safe characters, minimizing the risk of injection attacks by preventing malicious characters from being processed. Blacklisting specific characters is less secure because attackers can often find ways to bypass these restrictions. Encoding output data on the client side enhances security but is not a substitute for proper input validation. Additionally, relying on secret API keys does not address the input validation directly.
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