[HN Gopher] Always have a comma in your password, if part of a l...
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Always have a comma in your password, if part of a leak it will
break the CSV
Author : edward
Score : 5 points
Date : 2024-10-03 21:57 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| emedchill wrote:
| Having special characters is a good idea but having a comma just
| to break a CSV is dumb. This would only happen if the hacker used
| a bad exporter or created their own (very poorly).
| freedomben wrote:
| Yeah, this is silly. Pretty much every serializer in existence
| is going to handle this case. If the attacker wrote their own,
| then you might get lucky
| transfire wrote:
| Use quotes too then!
| fsckboy wrote:
| ","
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| break it, but not in a way that throws a parse error
| Asraelite wrote:
| On the other hand, if you go out of your way to pollute the data
| and the hacker debugs the resulting errors and finds you as the
| culprit, they may target you as a form of petty revenge.
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