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Heroku Incident, SIM Swapping, and security tools

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Is It Better for an Empty Form Field to Create an Emply String in a Data Base?

Part of starting a podcast is being vulnerable, which i feel like ip pejested on this whole episode by screwing up words. Is it better for an empty form field to create an empty string in a data base, or a nill value? It should be nil. But i want to know why you think that ate interesting. I think it should be nill, but i'm pretty sure if the present is there, rails is going to put an empty string there.

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