Things You Can't Say in Notepad

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Fukenbroken.  ;-)

[snip]

f 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. 

[snip]

Link:
http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1502576

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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