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by whoisthemachine 4070 days ago
At least the government contractors did their SQL correctly!
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Probably not... knowing how that code gets written, the correct table was probably called "tbl_cmmts"
Meh. Needs more cynicism.

Knowing the government, the data from a web form is faxed to an office where someone retypes it into an IBM AS/400 mainframe green-screen by hand, omitting the ');

As a former government contractor...I find this quite surprising. It's hard to find decent government contractors and even then it's usually just a few teams versus a whole company.