Drop Table Political Action Committee

bengali3 11 years ago |

From the PDF filing linked: "A SuperPAC devoted to raising awareness of SQL injections."

http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/964/15951210964/15951210964.pdf

yellowapple 11 years ago |

It should've been named "'; DROP TABLE committees;". Way to fail at SQL injections :)

fabulist 11 years ago | |

The bad characters may have been stripped

ramidarigaz 11 years ago |

Good to know their SQL sanitization is working...

whoisthemachine 11 years ago | |

At least the government contractors did their SQL correctly!

x3n0ph3n3 11 years ago | | |

Probably not... knowing how that code gets written, the correct table was probably called "tbl_cmmts"

fennecfoxen 11 years ago | | |

Meh. Needs more cynicism.

Knowing the government, the data from a web form is faxed to an office where someone retypes it into an IBM AS/400 mainframe green-screen by hand, omitting the ');

BinaryIdiot 11 years ago | | |

As a former government contractor...I find this quite surprising. It's hard to find decent government contractors and even then it's usually just a few teams versus a whole company.

dankohn1 11 years ago |

For those who didn't get the reference: https://xkcd.com/327/

pacaro 11 years ago | |

Also see Sweden [1], previous discussion on HN [2]

[1] http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2010/09/23/did-little... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1721494

_pius 11 years ago |

Little Bobby Tables grew up and started a PAC!

j_baker 11 years ago |

Someone should create a <script>alert('PAC')</script>

scarmig 11 years ago |

MapLight is a pretty cool org. I wonder if this was something they purposefully did or an employee going rogue.

bengali3 11 years ago | |

Good question. Mr. Shah did use his maplight email address, but not the maplight street address.

http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/964/15951210964/15951210964.pdf

throwaway5752 11 years ago |

I wish it would work. I can't believe just two people are going to drop $900M on a single election through PACs.

adventured 11 years ago | |

While I'm sure the Koch brothers will spend a large sum, the $900m isn't going to come from just them, that's the total goal of their political network, to be sourced from hundreds or thousands of donors. Their network spent nearly $400m during the 2012 elections.