RE: Things You Can't Say in Notepad

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

bug works here....  I like this phrase:
 
dead jfk gun shots
 
 
hehehe
 
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From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Bryan
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:39 PM
To: Drsolly
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Things You Can't Say in Notepad


It repros here in XP SP2.


On 6/14/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com <mailto:drsollyp () drsolly com> >
wrote: 

My Windows 98 Notepad doesn't have this problem

Can anyone else reproduce this?

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Fergie wrote:

> 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
<http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1502576> 
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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