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General => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: John Z on November 02, 2021, 01:18:20 PM

Title: Interesting article about unicode use to watch out for
Post by: John Z on November 02, 2021, 01:18:20 PM

Hiding nefarious code in plain sight.  Obfuscation by Unicode RTL identifier.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/01/trojan_source_language_reversal_unicode/


John Z

Title: Re: Interesting article about unicode use to watch out for
Post by: Pelle on November 03, 2021, 01:26:28 PM

Yeah. The question is how important this is. Looks like GCC will add some diagnostics in the upcoming version, and LLVM will add something to a checker (not the compiler?). Microsoft is unknown.

Title: Re: Interesting article about unicode use to watch out for
Post by: Grincheux on November 03, 2021, 05:30:30 PM

Next Pelle's version will compile encrypted source code!

Title: Re: Interesting article about unicode use to watch out for
Post by: Pelle on November 03, 2021, 07:58:10 PM

Next version will only compile "Hello, world". It's safer that way. Trust me...  ;D