This works on Mac using TextEdit 1.4 too, but the browser name issue you reported doesn't work (FF 2.0.0.6).
- Juha-Matti Tonu Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Reading today http://www.digg.com/offbeat_news/WTF_is_this_Character > rang bells in my head. There is a nice utf character which just confuses > software and all display goes instead left-to-right into right-to-left. > It is difficult to exaplain but go and read original. > > But by concerns are related to security. For example even looking title > of this digg.com page with Firefox or Konqueror and you see that browser > name is reversed! I looked into source code with Firefox and lot of > things are reversed too! > > I was thinking about possible (ab)uses of this "feature". Let say, I > want to write some rude words into some portal but they regexp it out. > Now I have way to do it. > > http://www.epl.ee/?artikkel=317582&kommentaarid=0 is random example. > "sitt" is bit rude word and they do not allow to use it inside > comments. > > Another example is Delfi. This is locally huge portal and they colour > word "delfi" in comments into their trademark colours: > > http://www.delfi.ee/archive/article.php?id=16722806&ndate=1187643600&categoryID=120&com=1&s=1&no=180 > > Why it is in this list? I think this is serious security issue when you > have to audit source code of bank and you read > > if ( sum == 123 ) > > but actually machine understands it as > > if ( sum == 321 ) > > I am sure people in this list can come up with more ideas. Just wanted > to warn about such "feature". > > Tõnu > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
