Twitter's new Gender thing doesn't enforce maxlength server-side, only client-side, so of course I did this.
Context: https://twitter.com/leemandelo/status/1254179716451438592
If you don't know what that random-looking gibberish is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file
Update: I blogged about it in case you want a longer explanation. https://soatok.blog/2020/04/27/why-server-side-input-validation-matters/
Why Server-Side Input Validation Matters

I was recently made aware of a change to Twitter, which exposes a new Gender field. If you’ve never specified your gender before, they guessed what it was (which is a really shitty thing to d…

https://soatok.blog/2020/04/27/why-server-side-input-validation-matters/
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