Thread by @doctorow

Companies House, the British registrar of newly formed companies, has forced a firm to rename itself from

""><SCRIPT SRC=MJT.XSS.HT> LTD

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On the grounds that merely including the name of the company on a web-page (including the Companies House website) could trigger cross-site scripting attacks.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/n…

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The company - run by a self-described "playful" IT consultant - has changed its name to:

THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD

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The company joins other nerd humor business names that Companies House has rejected, including the @xkcd-inspired

; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD

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I remain slightly disappointed that my wife refused to allow me to put curly-braces in my daughter's middle name, or even an old school "+++ATH".

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While the UK continues its crackdown on code-injection attacks in official names, Ireland remains a free-fire zone full of people with surnames like O\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'\'Brien and O&#039Malley.

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