; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

The most recent submission was nearly two years ago. I'm sure there are plenty of people that either haven't seen it before, or were happy to be reminded.

dang was just linking to the previous discussions because they can also be interesting.

dang2• 5 years ago

No need to apologize! JshWright is correct - reposts are fine after a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

I post those archive links just to add additional interesting information. No reproach is implied!

0x138d5• 5 years ago

Also in a similar vein

That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24919710

pyuser583• 5 years ago

“Name available upon request from Companies House.”

robocat• 5 years ago

Here is the explanation from the company founder:

https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-ho...

(Disclaimer: Link copied from desas but needed to be top level comment.)

Florin_Andrei• 5 years ago

I was disappointed the founder's name is not actually Robert Tables.

dstroot• 5 years ago

https://xkcd.com/327/

You mean "Bobby Tables"?

conjectures• 5 years ago

There's a job for deed poll.

billyjobob• 5 years ago

As I recall, when this was registered, didn't they censor or force a name change? Not because their systems couldn't handle it, but because many third parties scrape the data and they feared it would break other people's systems. Have they decided to allow it now?

OJFord2• 5 years ago

Are you thinking of 'THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD':

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

By any chance? I don't know the back story, just seems like a better fit.

(I particularly like 'previous names - available on request'!)

sqrt• 5 years ago

Funny thing: clicking the "past" button on this submission doesn't work—seems like Cloudflare doesn't like the query and blocks the request.

voidnullnil2• 5 years ago

And it marks your IP some points toward "evil hacker" and now you know why Tor has been ruined for 10 years. Collary: CloudBleed.

voidnullnil2• 5 years ago

What's wrong with my comment? Quite literally: Cloudflare has been adopted by 50% or whatever of the web and they run a rudimentary WAF type product that is IP block happy. This is a recipe to get every VPN and Tor node in the world blocked.

What confuses me is that in 2010 all devs were finally on the "don't block stuff based on regex" train, and now all a sudden nothing matters just Cloudflare is God with some handwavy explanation of how they "did a risk analysis".

spullara• 5 years ago

A reminder to do your pen testing on a different environment otherwise you often will end up with a bunch of usernames like this and other attempts to break your app. Not in this case, but I have seen it happen.

NullPrefix• 5 years ago

More like

; DISSOLVE TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

bitwize• 5 years ago

Bobby Tables became an entrepreneur.

wdb• 5 years ago

Luckily, I am safe, as I am using company table name :)

; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

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