Rigid FAA Forms

In a previous article, Grumman-581 said:
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 17:00:10 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:
When I enlisted, the guy filling out the form put "NMI" in the form, and
from then on all my official documents including my discharge notice say
"Paul NMI Tomblin". Stupid, stupid, stupid. Now that I'm older and more
cynical I think I should have made up middle names like "Norman Mailer
Issiah" to match the fake initials.

Even these days, there are some programmers who are so clueless that
when they write the systems, they don't allow for hyphens in names...

My favourite is the programmers who forget to escape single quotes when
they're inserting into SQL databases, so everybody with an apostrophe in
their name like an O'Rielly or O'Hara gets an error. Usually these are
the same web programmers who don't protect against "SQL Injection Attacks" -
they take the name you insert, and stick it into an SQL statement doing a
"insert into user_data values('" + name + "');"
which you can then do major damage by inserting your name as
"a');drop database;" or
"a');delete from user_data;"
or something similarly nasty.

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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"This was, apparently, beyond her ken. So far beyond her ken that she was
well into barbie territory." - J.D. Baldwin