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Can someone explain why this is interesting? I must be missing something.
by spicyj 13y ago
Can someone explain why this is interesting? I must be missing something.
- daliusd 13y agoFor the same reasons why Star Wars, hacking using UTF-7 or mysterious J in e-mails from Outlook...
- quink 13y agohttp://chrisjean.com/2009/02/06/mystery-of-the-email-j-finally-solved/ http://chrisjean.com/2009/02/06/mystery-of-the-email-j-final... Pisses me off to no end that even my Outlook 2010 can't get that right in the subject heading preview.
- recuter 13y agoWell one interesting thing to consider is that Unicode could be abused to glue together weird and obscure symbols into the shape of words in English so you'll have a link that looks sort of like YourBankName.com but is actually x--213idsauaaslkda.com or some such.
- DanBC 13y agohttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/unicode_url_hac_1.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/unicode_url_h... > Here's a demo: it's a Web page that appears to be www.paypal.com but is not PayPal. Everything from the address bar to the hover-over status on the link says www.paypal.com. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2742852/unicode-characters-in-urls http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2742852/unicode-character...