.@wycats mentioned it in passing, and then of course, me being me, I had to play around in the console, understand why, and tell everyone 
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You're going to deeply regret that when 31 fingered aliens invade the Earth and the PIN for their command & control ship is null.
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I mean it's not broken. They passed the string "null", not null itself.
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