Before this change, the masking could be bypassed simply by
> set @@sql_mode='ANSI_QUOTES';
> select concat("ssn") from person;
The reason is that as the query classifier is not aware of whether
'ANSI_QUOTES' is on or not, it will not know that what above appears
to be the string "ssn", actually is the field name `ssn`. Consequently,
the select will not be blocked and the result returned in cleartext.
It's now possible to instruct the query classifier to report all string
arguments of functions as fields, which will prevent the above. However,
it will also mean that there may be false positives.