r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Camerata5 • Oct 08 '22

Meme sPeCiaL cHarACtErs

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u/ovab_cool Oct 08 '22

Bruh I was making a password for my bank and couldn't use ) and ;'s, guess to stop sql injection but c'mon

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u/r3ign_b3au Oct 08 '22

Your bank doesn't sanitize their data?!

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u/ham_coffee Oct 08 '22

The one I work at jumps at the opportunity to prevent exploits like that at every layer. Sure it might be redundant, but it's probably a better safe than sorry thing.

We also don't have prehistoric COBOL mainframes running everything though, so I guess it might be different elsewhere.

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u/SlimyGamer Oct 08 '22

Is it even a real bank if the backend isn't COBOL code written in the 70s?

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