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Mo Validation Mo Problems (infosec.pub)
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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 1 hour ago

There's an aspect of my surname which is somewhat unusual (at least in my country). As a result I occasionally get form validation errors when entering it. Sometimes those errors are extremely inscrutable. Sometimes a form validates but something elsewhere makes unvalidated assumptions about names which then breaks in completely unpredictable names...