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SQL Injection as a Feature

Looking at old applications, we always wonder who in their right mind thought of building them so badly. But every repository has its story and every effort has noble origins. I encountered such an ap

In the report page, you could query the most prevalent type of error that occurred in the wild and track it through time to see when it was introduced and when it was resolved. Traveling through time and CSV (version control), I discovered the initial commit when the report was first started more than a decade earlier. It didn't take long before someone decided to run a DELETE command, removing a single entry and throwing the whole system out of whack.

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