# BBC - Future - These unlucky people have names that break computers

<http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160325-the-names-that-break-computer-systems>

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- Saved: March 27, 2016 (2016-03-27T11:21:06Z)
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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Article totally missed the fact that null to a programmer is not a string and that a system that thinks "null" == null is true is broken in very serious ways. The author should have interviewed the infamous Ry4an Brase!

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