Prank or not, Tartaro was playing with fire by going with NULL in the first place. “He had it coming,” says Christopher Null, a journalist who has written previously for WIRED about the challenges his last name presents. “All you ever get is errors and crashes and headaches.”
Oh no, it gets worse:
Archive link: https://archive.ph/o/Foe1r/https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/