Saint BACKRONYM, Patron of Names With Logos

Patron of MySQL, options that look mandatory but are optional, and acronyms built backwards.

Life

On 30 April 2015 Adam Goodman of Duo Security revealed that in MySQL and MariaDB the --ssl option made encryption merely optional: a man in the middle could make the client fall back to a cleartext connection. To get noticed the flaw got a name, a website and a logo, with a deliberately absurd acronym: Bad Authentication Causes Kritical Risk Over Networks, Yikes MySQL. An affectionate parody of the branded-bug fashion.

Prayer

O Saint BACKRONYM, who reads names backwards, let our options mean what they say and never let encryption be an optional extra. Amen.

How to celebrate

Celebrated by updating MySQL, Connector/C and MariaDB, and requiring an encrypted connection instead of asking for one nicely.

Optional encryption, decorative protection.