This has me really curious about the most obfuscated, ambiguous/difficult/problematic possible usernames both for security/privacy and interesting anomalies in general.
Feel like one could make a whole book on this – please send any resources that could shed insight if possible
Iirc this was also an issue for hacks on the computer as well. Something about naming it pdf but it was actually an exe because they used right to left. Something like that
Iirc this was also an issue for hacks on the computer as well. Something about naming it pdf but it was actually an exe because they used right to left. Something like that
I don’t know what technically constitutes the most troublesome username, but surely some of the kaomoji Japanese folks have come up with are up there. Good luck trying to type these.
You have me curious to know more. I already know some Japanese from being a weeb, but could you explain what makes your example so difficult to type specifically? I only recognize one of the many symbols used
I think kaomoji have been a thing in Japan even before unicode was invented. The Japanese encodings and IME (input method esitors) allowed them to type a wide variety of characters, punctuation and symbols that aren’t available in most western encodings, so I feel like the Japanese folks had a head start on creative use of typography.
For example, if you want an eyeball you can just type “do” (degrees), and the IME will pull up °, and “omega” gives you ω, so it’s pretty easy to make (°ω°).
Two biggest terms I found in my research - ‘Confuseables’ and Homoglyphs
Allographs and homographs are good runnerups
Superbly informative wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph
This has me really curious about the most obfuscated, ambiguous/difficult/problematic possible usernames both for security/privacy and interesting anomalies in general.
Feel like one could make a whole book on this – please send any resources that could shed insight if possible
I wonder if you can break copy-paste by mixing in similar looking characters from a right-to-left language.
Actually a security concern for the web: IDN homograph attack
Iirc this was also an issue for hacks on the computer as well. Something about naming it pdf but it was actually an exe because they used right to left. Something like that
Iirc this was also an issue for hacks on the computer as well. Something about naming it pdf but it was actually an exe because they used right to left. Something like that
I don’t know what technically constitutes the most troublesome username, but surely some of the kaomoji Japanese folks have come up with are up there. Good luck trying to type these.
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You have me curious to know more. I already know some Japanese from being a weeb, but could you explain what makes your example so difficult to type specifically? I only recognize one of the many symbols used
I think kaomoji have been a thing in Japan even before unicode was invented. The Japanese encodings and IME (input method esitors) allowed them to type a wide variety of characters, punctuation and symbols that aren’t available in most western encodings, so I feel like the Japanese folks had a head start on creative use of typography.
For example, if you want an eyeball you can just type “do” (degrees), and the IME will pull up °, and “omega” gives you ω, so it’s pretty easy to make (°ω°).
Two biggest terms I found in my research - ‘Confuseables’ and Homoglyphs Allographs and homographs are good runnerups Superbly informative wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph