Drop Table Political Action Committee

http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00576496/1005514/

by seanherron • 11 years ago

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ramidarigaz• 11 years ago

Good to know their SQL sanitization is working...

whoisthemachine• 11 years ago

At least the government contractors did their SQL correctly!

BinaryIdiot• 11 years ago

As a former government contractor...I find this quite surprising. It's hard to find decent government contractors and even then it's usually just a few teams versus a whole company.

x3n0ph3n3• 11 years ago

Probably not... knowing how that code gets written, the correct table was probably called "tbl_cmmts"

bengali32• 11 years ago

From the PDF filing linked: "A SuperPAC devoted to raising awareness of SQL injections."

http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/964/15951210964/15951210964.pdf

yellowapple• 11 years ago

It should've been named "'; DROP TABLE committees;". Way to fail at SQL injections :)

fabulist• 11 years ago

The bad characters may have been stripped

dankohn1• 11 years ago

For those who didn't get the reference: https://xkcd.com/327/

pacaro• 11 years ago

Also see Sweden [1], previous discussion on HN [2]

[1] http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2010/09/23/did-little... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1721494

scarmig• 11 years ago

MapLight is a pretty cool org. I wonder if this was something they purposefully did or an employee going rogue.

bengali32• 11 years ago

Good question. Mr. Shah did use his maplight email address, but not the maplight street address.

http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/964/15951210964/15951210964.pdf

_pius• 11 years ago

Little Bobby Tables grew up and started a PAC!

throwaway5752• 11 years ago

I wish it would work. I can't believe just two people are going to drop $900M on a single election through PACs.

adventured• 11 years ago

While I'm sure the Koch brothers will spend a large sum, the $900m isn't going to come from just them, that's the total goal of their political network, to be sourced from hundreds or thousands of donors. Their network spent nearly $400m during the 2012 elections.

j_baker• 11 years ago

Someone should create a <script>alert('PAC')</script>

Drop Table Political Action Committee

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