In case you have any confusion about this, please note that the term "Innovative" is used here to mean "likely to cause Hacker News readers to spew soda out their noses".
This presents its own problems, if for some reason in the future they need to add one of these missing functions to the servers access, and don't recognise that they need to add the check as well.
But anyway, it is great to see the boss' nephew getting some work.
What it does is generate stupid alarms and break pageflows when you have an improperly configured web filter.