If a simple rejection of particular sequences of characters for a business name reduces security risks for possibly millions of people, then I'm all for that.
Or we just could force all those thousands of unemployed software engineers everyone is always talking about into slavery to shore up security in the local library's database and web interface, free of charge.
Please don't. They're probably unemployed because they caused those same mistakes at their previous employer. It baffles me that so-called Computer Science courses don't have any content on security or even make mention of OWASP and get students to investigate it on their own.
That's a pretty big "if". Try this one: If a company name written in ASCII-7 will break a database, the database software needs to be rewritten. I'm not even asking for unicode, not even the European plane.
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That's a pretty big "if". Try this one:
If a company name written in ASCII-7 will break a database, the database software needs to be rewritten.
I'm not even asking for unicode, not even the European plane.