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RE: [Full-disclosure] alert: the 111111 bug
From: Aditya Deshmukh (aditya.deshmukh
online.gateway.strangled.net)
Date: Mon Jul 04 2005 - 23:16:58 CDT
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> I noticed one of my customers using the "special" date of 11/11/11 in
> their database.
These sort of shortcuts are frequently taken by the programmers or the
DB admins after the whole system has been setup :)
> For this customer 11/11/11 in the date field means, don't process
> this record, which will obviously cause problems with legitimate
> transactions on that date.
This becomes a part of the site's folklore that every new admin/programmer
has to learn to prevent chaos.
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