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Andy Harbison @andrewharbison1.bsky.social

It’s just crappy programming. They’re using SQL databases, and apostrophes are used in SQL programming to designate strings. Hence they can’t cope with them sitting among the data they’re trying to store. With a little imagination they could solve the problem, but that’s probably too much to ask.

aug 26, 2025, 10:10 am • 1 0

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Andy Harbison @andrewharbison1.bsky.social

Now I think about it, they should be checking the data coming in anyway for apostrophes and other special characters to avoid nasty database hacking attacks like SQL injections.

aug 26, 2025, 10:23 am • 1 0 • view