‫‬‏‮txet lanoitcerid-iB

Post by cbd1984 » Fri, Nov 28, 2014, 3:10 AM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #11

13 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The submission title is actually "txet lanoitcerid-iB", with a Right To Left Override control character at the front. The whole line is in reverse it just doesn't look like it when rendered in your browser. There's a variety of control characters in unicode which let you stack, reverse, raise and lower individual pieces of text as you desire. ‮.ekil skool yllaer ti tahw ees ll'uoy dna enil siht gnitsap dna ypoc yrT

Interesting, I viewedmthe source of the page, and some of the tags are reversed too. Is this an exploit/attack vector?

Post by jaachan » Fri, Nov 28, 2014, 8:31 AM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #4

Nice - confuses XFCE as well: http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/hackernews.png

Post by cnrsvxz » Sun, Nov 30, 2014, 11:48 PM UTC

jakub_g wrote: post #3

You can exploit this trick to some extent to name a file in a way that spoofs its real extension. E.g. name an .exe file such that it looks like if it was .doc (and give the exe an icon associated often with .doc to be even more convincing).