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[ab]using Unicode to create tragedy

10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 7 stories, 3 comments · first 2015-10-19 · latest 2021-11-10

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  1. I brought this up last time ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29066760 ) but: https://github.com/reinderien/mimic It applies to other contexts besides code. For our user table we have a mariadb collation on the unicodes confusables…
    comment by capitainenemo · 2021-11-10 · in The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
  2. This doesn't feel particularly new either? Isn't it pretty much a new variant of https://github.com/reinderien/mimic ? Which, if one is suspicious of code, can be defeated in vim with: set encoding=latin1
    comment by capitainenemo · 2021-11-01 · in ‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code
  3. Context for this (from the author, coming off a discussion of https://github.com/reinderien/mimic ): http://www.metafilter.com/154087/Zalgo-text-would-be-kinder#...
    comment by ldite · 2015-10-26 · in Whitemark: Steganographic encoding of a watermark in the whitespace of text