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One of my indonesian friends also had only one name. She named herself as Noel as she felt that was better than being referred to as Ms. Null.



I once worked on a project, which used the Dow Jones list of people of interest, a list of politicians and terrorists, mostly. One day the software began to fail catastrophically, when parsing the latest version of that list. That day, a Mr. Null was added to that list ;-)


As in no name at all? Now that’s an entirely new level. Pretty forward thinking parents considering today’s surveillance... maybe they where phreakers tried to name him ' OR '1'='1 but the Government didn’t accept special characters so they resorted to naming him null.

:)


Reminds me of little Bobby Tables.

https://xkcd.com/327/




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