When Your Validation Logic Hates Real People

When Your Validation Logic Hates Real People
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When your validation logic is too aggressive. Tony Hawk gets deleted because "that can't be the real Tony Hawk" and Dallas Tester gets nuked because an airline's regex thinks he's a test account. Classic case of overzealous input sanitization that treats legitimate edge cases as security threats. This is why we can't have nice names in production.

Somewhere, a developer is adding if(name != "Tony Hawk" && !name.includes("test")) to their validation code and calling it a day.

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