Interesting way to tell the world you're vulnerable to SQL injection
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“This restricts the use of punctuation marks and special characters (eg apostrophes, hyphens and ampersands) to avoid potential problems when searching the databases as these characters have specific meanings in computer systems.”
That sounds more like a pretty basic database design issue.
The database language is what it is. The application should be forming a well structured query to the database. Working around issues like this has been well established for a long time now. I'm guessing they have some bad software and for whatever reason they're not addressing it correctly.
Sanitize your inputs or you get little Bobby Drop Tables enrolled in your city program again.
Some residents expressed reservations about removing the apostrophes, and said it risked “everything going downhill”.
They should be careful, some of those people sound pretty miffed. There could be muttering and grumbling going on.
Aren't we supposed to have long outgrown the necessity of this?
Simply awful state of affair’s.
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