From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marc Brugui=E8res?= (marcbruguieres@ifrance.com)
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 13:50:05 CST
Elliotte Harold:
> 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.
Which characters? Different from those that ICANN will want to ban? How many ways of plugging the holes? Shouldtn't his be solved *as much as possible* in Unicode, rather looks like there are more and more confusables being encoded (for example Ancient Greek Musical Signs, Arabic diacritics, etc.).
-- Marc
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