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October 23, 2015 12:28 pm PDT

Evil script replaces punctuation in your code with superficially similar symbols

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Mimic implements a sick, sick idea floated on Twitter by Peter Ritchie: "Replace a semicolon (;) with a greek question mark (;) in your friend's C# code and watch them pull their hair out over the syntax error."

mimic provokes:

fun
frustration
curiosity
murderous rage

There are many more characters in the Unicode character set that look, to some extent or another, like others homoglyphs. Mimic substitutes common ASCII characters for obscure homoglyphs.

Fun games to play with mimic:

Pipe some source code through and see if you can find all of the problems
Pipe someone else's source code through without telling them
Be fired, and then killed

What arseholes. What magnificent arseholes.


Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QJFsMBXdasY/evil-script-replaces-punctuati.html

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