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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's easy, just call it Jhon\nDoe

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day ago (3 children)

John\0Doe will fuck with all C (and C based derivatives) software that touches it.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago

Nah, it will end up simply as "John" in the database. You need "John%sDoe" to crash C software with unsafe printf() calls, and even then it's better to use several "%s"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

C and C derivatives will be fine unless they're fucking up encoding.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Which rarely, if ever, happens. Especially with US software.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

With an address in 's-Hertogenbosch to help people who are lazy about escaping.