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Chapter 8: Offensive programming—say no more.
Chapter 9: When faults breach your careful defenses, you’ll need a strategy to round them up.
Chapter 12: Defensive programming is a key technique for writing secure software systems.
Chapter 19: You must document pre- and postconditions; how else will anyone know they exist? If you have any constraints specified, then you can add defensive code to assert them.

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