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Asking the real questions(jlai.lu)

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Drew Belloc@programming.dev
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That’s easy, just call it Jhon\nDoe

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riodoro1@lemmy.world
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John\0Doe will fuck with all C (and C based derivatives) software that touches it.

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xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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C and C derivatives will be fine unless they’re fucking up encoding.

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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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Which rarely, if ever, happens. Especially with US software.

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

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pelya@lemmy.world
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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”

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