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nixCraft 🐧Aug 5, 2023

😂 from https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10542519

[NAME AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM COMPANIES HOUSE] overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

[NAME AVAILABLE ON REQUEST FROM COMPANIES HOUSE] - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity

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Macleod Sawyer

@nixCraft great post from the "owner" of the company: "No, I didn't try to break Companies House"

No, I didn't try to break Companies House

I have a tendency to take a joke too far. The most recent example of this would be yesterday in IRC, where I was discussing with a few friends what I should name my new company. Being a business to business consultancy, and mostly a one-man operation, the name isn’t that important, but I wanted something with a bit of personality. And I asked: <Mopman> Is there anything stopping me from registering ; DROP TABLE "Companies";-- Ltd as a company name?

Sam Pizzey

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Macleod Sawyer Aug 5, 2023

@nixCraft but still not as good as the guy who did a XSS injection https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-house-forces-business-name-change-to-prevent-security-risk

Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites

Software firm’s director thought name using HTML would be ‘fun and playful’

The Guardian

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Ashley Porciuncula Aug 5, 2023

@macleod @nixCraft Reminds me of this podcast about people named "Null" https://radiolab.org/podcast/null

NULL

A story about folks who’ve disappeared and the computers that deleted them.

Radiolab Podcasts | WNYC Studios

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Jan v/d Broek Aug 5, 2023

@AshleyMarineP @macleod @nixCraft And licence plates
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/

How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell

Security researcher Joseph Tartaro thought NULL would make a fun license plate. He's never been more wrong.

WIRED

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🐇Aug 6, 2023

@macleod @nixCraft

sad that this headline appears to contain “forced to change name” and not “thanked for benevolently reminding everyone why it’s important to sanitize your inputs”