Re:Dear devs: Plus signs are valid
by is_true on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:39PM
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We remove the plus sign and everything after it. Spammers love the + alias.
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Homoglyph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph
UniCode 'Confusables' Visual-Spoofing: https://unicode.org/reports/tr36/#visual_spoofing
The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor: https://certitude.consulting/blog/en/invisible-backdoor/
<quote> There are many other characters that look similar to the ones used in code which may be used for such proposes, (e.g. “/”, “−”, “+”, “⩵”, “”, “⫽”, “꓿”, “∗”). Unicode calls these characters “confusables”. </quote>