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Fix the merge so it can't pollute Object.prototype

advancedlayer A7 · Security2 tests

The chapter showed how a naive recursive merge lets "__proto__" in the source object reach and pollute Object.prototype itself. Write safeMerge(target, source) that merges recursively like the original — but is immune to that attack.

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