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I figured that one out, but --- evaluate? mocha? expression?

• cscheid 10y ago
  mocha has a naughty german word in its middle, I'm fairly sure.
  • slrz 10y ago
    As a German native speaker, I'm unable to figure it out.
  • guitarbill 10y ago
    No it doesn't. I believe it can be used for Javascript injections like 'eval' as 'mocha' is/was common a test framework. At least that's the ostensible reason Yahoo replaced 'eval' with 'review', 'mocha' with 'expresso', and 'expression' to 'statement' way back in 2002 [0]. [0] https://www.newscientist.com//article/dn2546-email-security-filter-spawns-new-words https://www.newscientist.com//article/dn2546-email-security-...
    • jwilk 10y ago
      "espresso", not "expresso".
    • scatters 10y ago
      "expresso" with "mocha", surely.
• HalfwayToDice 10y ago
  those puzzled me too
• manarth 10y ago
  The commit message explains that the terms are verbatim from Wikipedia [1]. Wikipedia [2] attributes it to a Yahoo email filter "which automatically replaced Javascript-related strings with alternate versions, to prevent the possibility of cross-site scripting in HTML email". [1] https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/commit/e6bd41791e4143b532e9a6ddbfbd620f1d6eaa81 https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/com... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem