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Things You Can't Say in Notepad

  • 16-06-2006 3:12pm
    #1
    tvbrat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭


    from
    http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1502576
    Things You Can't Say in Notepad
    If you're a Windows user, open Notepad and type in this phrase, without the quote marks and with no carriage return: "Bush hid the facts". Now save it and open it again.

    The subversive text is probably gone, replaced by a line of white boxes, or Chinese characters if you have the font.

    Weeeird.

    It's not the massive right-wing conspiracy it might seem, though. The folks at WinCustomize.com discovered an odd bug in Notepad that's triggered by a text file consisting of a four-letter word, two three-letter words, and a five letter word. Some text does it -- "this app can break" is their example -- some doesn't.

    If Microsoft can't keep strange bugs out of Windows' simplest application, we'd better get used to the monthly security patch cycle.

    (Found via Digg)


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Explained.


  • #3
    tvbrat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭tvbrat


    aidan_walsh wrote:
    Explained.

    Thanks for that


  • #4
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    tvbrat wrote:
    from
    http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1502576
    Things You Can't Say in Notepad
    If you're a Windows user, open Notepad and type in this phrase, without the quote marks and with no carriage return: "Bush hid the facts". Now save it and open it again.

    The subversive text is probably gone, replaced by a line of white boxes, or Chinese characters if you have the font.

    Weeeird.

    It's not the massive right-wing conspiracy it might seem, though. The folks at WinCustomize.com discovered an odd bug in Notepad that's triggered by a text file consisting of a four-letter word, two three-letter words, and a five letter word. Some text does it -- "this app can break" is their example -- some doesn't.

    If Microsoft can't keep strange bugs out of Windows' simplest application, we'd better get used to the monthly security patch cycle.

    (Found via Digg)

    Nice one!


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