Article 5RFZQ [$] Trojan Source: tricks (no treats) with Unicode

[$] Trojan Source: tricks (no treats) with Unicode

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jake
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A new security vulnerability that was disclosedon November 1 has some interesting properties. "Trojan Source", as it has beendubbed, is effectively an attack on human perceptions, especially as theyare filtered through the tools used for source-code review. While thespecifics of the flaw are new, this kind of trickery is not completelynovel, but Trojan Source finds another way to confuse the humans who arein the loop.
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