[HN Gopher] ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD
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; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD
Author : OJFord
Score : 103 points
Date : 2021-07-12 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk)
| belter wrote:
| They got the idea from the Swedish electorate
|
| "Did Little Bobby Tables migrate to Sweden?"
|
| https://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2010/09/23/did-littl...
| codeulike wrote:
| See also DROP TABLE CONSULTANTS; LTD
|
| https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
| snarfy wrote:
| Just name your company 'null'.
| dang wrote:
| _Drop Table "Companies";-- LTD_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21534156 - Nov 2019 (7
| comments)
|
| _Drop Table "Companies";- LTD_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583540 - Aug 2019 (2
| comments)
|
| _Drop Table Companies Ltd_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17003588 - May 2018 (27
| comments)
|
| _Drop Table Companies Ltd_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280494 - Dec 2016 (23
| comments)
| OJFord wrote:
| Apologies - I checked hn.algolia and didn't find it, but only
| by URL, which must be slightly different here or have changed.
| JshWright wrote:
| The most recent submission was nearly two years ago. I'm sure
| there are plenty of people that either haven't seen it
| before, or were happy to be reminded.
|
| dang was just linking to the previous discussions because
| they can also be interesting.
| 0x138d5 wrote:
| Also in a similar vein
|
| _That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd_
| - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24919710
| pyuser583 wrote:
| "Name available upon request from Companies House."
| robocat wrote:
| Here is the explanation from the company founder:
|
| https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-ho...
|
| (Disclaimer: Link copied from desas but needed to be top level
| comment.)
| Florin_Andrei wrote:
| I was disappointed the founder's name is not actually Robert
| Tables.
| billyjobob wrote:
| As I recall, when this was registered, didn't they censor or
| force a name change? Not because their systems couldn't handle
| it, but because many third parties scrape the data and they
| feared it would break other people's systems. Have they decided
| to allow it now?
| OJFord wrote:
| Are you thinking of 'THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN
| HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD':
|
| https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
|
| By any chance? I don't know the back story, just seems like a
| better fit.
|
| (I particularly like 'previous names - available on request'!)
| sqrt wrote:
| Funny thing: clicking the "past" button on this submission
| doesn't work--seems like Cloudflare doesn't like the query and
| blocks the request.
| [deleted]
| bla3 wrote:
| Isn't this missing a leading " to terminate the string it's
| interpolated into?
| desas wrote:
| Yeah intentionally so. https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-
| to-break-companies-ho...
| codeulike wrote:
| Here's one that does have the speechmark
|
| https://find-and-update.company-
| information.service.gov.uk/c...
|
| ROBERT'); DROP TABLE STUDENTS; LIMITED
| johnnyfived wrote:
| Lol, dissolved 4 years after it was incorporated
| ineedasername wrote:
| Self-dropping
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Hackaday discussed this a few years back:
|
| https://hackaday.com/2016/12/29/if-bobby-tables-had-his-own-...
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