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Re:Explain SQL injection without technical jargon by yen223 on Thursday December 20, 2012 @09:32PM (#4951206)
Are you reading the same comic? The author doesn't explain why calling the son

    Robert')DROP TABLE Students;--
would cause the records to disappear. Which is fair enough: it's meant to be humourous, not explanatory.
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Re:Explain SQL injection without technical jargon by mung on Thursday December 20, 2012 @09:49PM (#4951258)
It doesn't have to explain why or how, one can infer from the comic that inputting unexpected data into a form will cause an unexpected result.
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Re:Explain SQL injection without technical jargon by chii on Thursday December 20, 2012 @10:00PM (#4951293)
to quote babbage:

> On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

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Re:Explain SQL injection without technical jargon by cynwoody on Friday December 21, 2012 @12:13AM (#4951590)
It's funny as hell.

And the last remark in the dialog makes it clear the intended audience is sloppy developers, not non-techies.

Although brighter non-techies would probably get it after a little thought.

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