Cdespinosa,
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— “Our junior programmers don’t know how to escape and normalize metacharacters in database queries of our GIS”
— “I’ve got it: why don’t we just change all the street signs?”

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

SteveBellovin,
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@Cdespinosa @acookiecrumbles I think that Little Bobby Tables’ mom lives on that street.

matadan,
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@Cdespinosa Also the standard they refer to explicitly says that apostrophes in street names are expected and allowed.

acdha,
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@Cdespinosa I just can’t help but imagine this inspired some ransomeware gangs to take a closer look at their sites

Luke,
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@Cdespinosa I bet this is a common strategy in Canada with two standard languages and one being French.

shayman,
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@Luke @Cdespinosa Canadian road signs have plenty of punctuation.

recursive,
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@Cdespinosa this is really sad, considering this is something we've been able to deal with correctly for 40-50 years

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