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The 'NULL' License Plate (2019)
- StringyBob 5y agoAccording to their Twitter it’s still ongoing: https://twitter.com/droogie1xp/status/1471653205733871619 https://twitter.com/droogie1xp/status/1471653205733871619
- Tempest1981 5y agoDoesn't seem that hard to fix. I'm surprised they don't consider it a security-type issue.
- ricardo81 5y agoSounds a lot like 'undefined behaviour', certainly unexpected at least. I guess somewhere along the line a passed 'null' value is getting converted to a string for plate lookup.
- more_corn 5y agoHow is this unexpected? Anytime a plate number is missing in the database it’ll match to him.
- ricardo81 5y agoThat's not what's happening, the article mentioned it was when the submitted report didn't have a license field at all, so it perhaps is comparing null to null on the lookup. Personally I would've thought the lookup would be an empty string. Hopefully little bobby tables doesn't get caught speeding.
- Tempest1981 5y agoMore discussion here in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20676904 (471 comments)