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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

This sounds like the start of another sovcit "loophole"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

It's time to log off and get a vasectomy

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

A line break is a non-printable character. So it would only work in the scope of electronic storage. The minute it hits other media, the line break character is subject to how that media handles it’s presence, and then it is lost permanently from that step forward.

Plus, many input forms make use of validation that will just trim anything that isn’t a character or number, removing the line break character.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What about an open bracket? (

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Always sanitize your Data inputs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Anyone remember when Chrome had that issue with validating nested URL-encoded characters? Anyone for John%%80%80 Doe?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Am I allowed to include sql command words such as drop table in my child's name?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Simmer down, Bobby

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I'm not american and I'm glad I'm not but intended if someone could enter a bunch of zero width spaces

[–] erayerdin 11 points 1 month ago

"ethics aside" truly a starter for a qa

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unix or dos format?

Anyway, you probably need to put a backslash before it to indicate line continuation.

But wouldn't it be better to use something more traditional, such as ?

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