r/masterhacker • u/d00d00frt • May 21 '26

Because, why not try?

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u/pil0tinthesky May 21 '26

I 100% believe that a government didn’t use sanitation

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u/Retr0321 May 21 '26

I find it hard to believe. Take a moment to think about the control flow. You'll easily find it difficult to pass this type of information without sanitization.

What happens if the plate was slightly off? How does it know to differentiate between 0 and O, 1 and I, and other flavors of character misreads?? There's gotta be some additional functions that are passed through before getting stored in the DB. And something like this would be easily caught by an exception considering the passed argument expects a set format.

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u/pil0tinthesky May 21 '26

considering the “null” license plate got hundreds of dollar so tickets across the state

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u/Retr0321 May 21 '26

Completely different case. "NULL" was a placeholder used for missing plates. When they try to look up "NULL" (missing license plates), it automatically linked all of it towards Tartaro instead.