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Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”

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Re: Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”

#21
post #14

In my firefox it looks like four "a"s with a little rat sitting on top of the first of them.

Same, I actually assumed that's what the string was supposed to be, now opening this in chrome I can see wildly different it looks

This[1] is how it looks to me on my Firefox, is that the Chrome version or the Firefox version on your side?

[1] https://i.postimg.cc/nVPBqXjV/fireunicode.png

Re: Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”

#22
post #16
post #7

Fun story about one of the devices mentioned there that I worked on. We used to store the saved wifi creds in a file named exactly what the SSID was. Some user managed to break things, and with their permission we gathered detailed wifi logs and found they were connected to an SSID that was an ASCII depiction of the equation: [redacted] plus [redacted] equals [redacted]. The issue was the forward slashes, presumably…

Sounds like a directory traversal to me :) It's generally a bad idea to have the user in control of filenames you create if those files are not on a device they own.

In this case, it sounds like the files were on a device owned by the user?

Re: Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”

#25
Ok i am a bit angry, first i was thinking that a fly shit is on my screen, then that my GPU has a problem, then i read the Title ;)

It's really crazy, looks completely different on my bsd-box compared to my linux-laptop LOVE IT!!

Re: Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”

#28
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a directory traversal to me :) It's generally a bad idea to have the user in control of filenames you create if those files are not on a device they own.

In this case, it sounds like the files were on a device owned by the user?

I guess SCHiM means "own" as in "have administrative control over".

Re: Comparing how different devices display the SSID “á̶̛̛̓̿̈͐͆̐̇̒̑̈́͘͝aaa”

#30
post #7

Fun story about one of the devices mentioned there that I worked on. We used to store the saved wifi creds in a file named exactly what the SSID was. Some user managed to break things, and with their permission we gathered detailed wifi logs and found they were connected to an SSID that was an ASCII depiction of the equation: [redacted] plus [redacted] equals [redacted]. The issue was the forward slashes, presumably…

Always base64 data you do that kind of thing with!
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