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Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Little Bobby Tables is all grown up now

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago

"A Companies House spokesperson said: “A company was registered using characters that could have presented a security risk to a small number of our customers, if published on unprotected external websites."

Bullshit. The risk was to their reputation because the name causes an alert to fire. Letting this ride would have been the real risk reducing move.