Another confusable security hole

From: Elliotte Harold (elharo@metalab.unc.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 03:12:44 CST

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    Paul Battley found an issue involving Unicode characters that look like
    periods used to disguise executables on Mac OS X:

    http://po-ru.com/articles/osx-trojan/

    I think if I were Apple I'd probably just ban these characters in file
    names.

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    Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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