How’s that for a Company Name?
Posted by Jon Lee in Entertainment, Offtopic, tags: funny, SQL, SQL-Injection, xkcd
Here’s a story reminisent of an XKCD strip that made me chuckle. Norwegian hosting provider Syse Data was served a notice from the Norwegian name registry when their new company name was too similar to their old one. As a result, they changed their old company name to something very clever. Their new name is:
‘;UPDATE TAXRATE SET RATE = 0 WHERE NAME = ‘EDVIN SYSE’
That’s right! Their new company name is an SQL injection attack! Luckily for the Norwegian industry, they took the appropriate steps to prevent SQL injection attacks so it didn’t affect them directly. I’m sure the funny guys over at Syse Data weren’t legitimately trying to evade paying taxes, but just wanted to have some fun.
They were asked to change that name though since their little charade caused a lot of buzz and generated too much traffic to the Norwegian registry and they weren’t able to handle it.
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