Bharat Rakshak

I am thinking against readability now..

then I was thinking like this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6334 ... m-hashcode

say generate number, and get a string value. doh! what was I thinking. if that was magic, the zipping technology would be reinvented.

thanks vt

SaiK wrote:I want to generate 8 billion test-data names. readable ....

Is there a better way to do this?

Whatever you do, would be nice to be careful, and not have let a name like "Bobby Drop Table;" get interpreted ...

From: "Exploits of a Mom" series..



(Hope there are DOO's here in brf : ))

AmberG ji: that was the trick used to get rid of spammers and their databases. I think there was a case by the spammer in the US. Court ruled it is illegal to reply with drop as it is destruction of private property.

This is a form of SQL injection attack used during late 90's/early 2000's. I won't be surprised if there are still web servers ( armature ones ) still vulnerable to similar attacks!

Dipanker: Hat tip, you are right on the money. That is what it was called , i.e. SQL injection attack. The irony was that if one employs it against a spammer it was ruled illegal by the court.

it may be illegal by court.. but having such vulnerabilities is costly for chore-porates on account of data loss, service loss, business loss, h&d etc.

amber ji.. no such intention. no interpretations.. only raw data that would be used for some other measures.

Come to think of it, BRF was vulnerable to it too and it was exploited once I believe.

David Johnson, Mathemtaical Sciences, Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ has passed away last week. The book "Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness (Series of Books in the Mathematical Sciences)" By Garey and Johnson is the standard reference book and probably has one of the best expositions of the question
P =? NP

A few memorials follow:

Lipton/Regan's Blog

Lance Fortnow's blog

David Johnson 1945-2016 ACM memorial