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Re:Gun owners’ private information leaked by California Atto... by jrochkind1 on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @03:56PM (#31912250)
I don't think GP had any way to actually know or think the code involved did a "SELECT *", he was just using that as a clever jokey way of saying "looks like they published all the details they had on gun owners?"
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Re:Gun owners’ private information leaked by California Atto... by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @04:02PM (#31912310)
Whether they selected * is immaterial. The requirement probably said "publish all", or something along those lines and the person who did it had probably been burned in the past when they had tried to do anything other than implementing requirements like a dumb robot so they rolled their eyes and implemented requirements like a dumb robot while counting down the days to retirement. Somewhere there's probably a closed Jira ticket in which they covered their ass.
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Re:Gun owners’ private information leaked by California Atto... by jrochkind1 on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @08:40PM (#31915050)
OK you've significantly edited your comment since I replied to it, replacing the part I was replying to, my reply is no longer relevant to it.
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Re:Gun owners’ private information leaked by California Atto... by bmelton on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:43PM (#31915873)
There was a map with pushpins and if you clicked them, it showed the names and addresses of all the registered gun owners.

It was probably a _lot_ more involved than "SELECT *"

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