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Asking the real questions (jlai.lu)
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[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 100 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

That's easy, just call it Jhon\nDoe

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 69 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 66 points 13 hours ago

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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