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Drop Table Companies Ltd

beta.companieshouse.gov.uk

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Achievement unlocked.

Next level - name your company:

  X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

I very nearly did this a couple of years ago, but chickened out after the registrar I picked displayed a blank screen when I tried it.

Shame the companies house runs on MongoDB :-D ...

https://www.mongodb.com/press/companies-house-opens-its-data...

You can still do sql injection like attacks with Mongo.

"Nature of business (SIC)

62020 - Information technology consultancy activities"

Awesome great marketing work, love it.

That's not going to work. Did the beginning single quote get stripped out?

There was no beginning single quote in the original filing forming the company:

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10542519/filing-h...

But that document appears to be generated using Companies House tools, so it is possible that there was a single quote originally that was stripped out at an earlier stage.

Nah - brokenness is intentional. I'm sure Companies House application is secure, but I don't know if all the applications scraping it/using its feeds are, so I couldn't be /too/ real.

Was this supposed to kill companies house or scrapers?

you could ask the maker, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pizzeys

DROP TABLE CONSULTANTS; LTD - is from 2013 https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08768324

The author probably tried to break the software of the company registrar and wherever that name gets saved.

I guess it didn't work :) But good try.

I would try

aaa'; drop table companies; --

https://xkcd.com/327/

When hippie nerds name their kids, buy a former nuclear missile silo and watch the fuck out because we'll be accidentally thrown back into the days trying to start a fire with an iPhone and wishing for an Samsung Galaxy Note 7 airlines announced were banned at the beginning of every flight.

Funny idea. Good luck with the logo design, though... ;-)

ha ha, brilliant!

Guys.... This is obviously NOT an attempt to SQL inject. This is a full fledged company incorporation. A marketing move if you will.

Although a risky one. If that had worked that guy would end up in court.

Not that risky though - it looks more like an SQL injection than it actually is. I actually didn't think it would get this much attention - I went to bed!

Got it, just saw this comment

> Nah - brokenness is intentional

Well played sir.

EDIT: are you actually in the UK?

Watch out for those computer generated marketing letters being sent to the registered address.

Why would he end up in court?

Reminds me of the xckd comic Bobby drop tables https://xkcd.com/327/

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