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Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad
From: Bryan <bryan.madhatter () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 15:39:17 -0500
It repros here in XP SP2. On 6/14/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
My Windows 98 Notepad doesn't have this problem Can anyone else reproduce this? On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Fergie wrote: > Fukenbroken. ;-) > > [snip] > > f you're a Windows user, open Notepad and type in this phrase, without > the quote marks and with no carriage return: "Bush hid the facts". Now > save it and open it again. > > The subversive text is probably gone, replaced by a line of white > boxes, or Chinese characters if you have the font. > > Weeeird. > > It's not the massive right-wing conspiracy it might seem, though. The > folks at WinCustomize.com discovered an odd bug in Notepad that's > triggered by a text file consisting of a four-letter word, two > three-letter words, and a five letter word. Some text does it -- "this > app can break" is their example -- some doesn't. > > If Microsoft can't keep strange bugs out of Windows' simplest > application, we'd better get used to the monthly security patch cycle. > > [snip] > > Link: > http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1502576 > > - ferg > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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Current thread:
- Things You Can't Say in Notepad Fergie (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Andrew Haninger (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Dude VanWinkle (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Drsolly (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Bryan (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Chris Buechler (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Mary Landesman (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Drsolly (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Nick FitzGerald (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Bryan (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad David Lodge (Jun 14)
- RE: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Richard M. Smith (Jun 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Mary Landesman (Jun 14)
- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad David Lodge (Jun 14)
- RE: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Blanchard_Michael (Jun 14)
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- Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad Andrew Haninger (Jun 14)