Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

Re:Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji by FranchuFranchu on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @09:24AM (#43025702)

You could store UTF-8 encoded data inside the hidden bytestring. If some of the UTF-8 encoded smuggled characters are variation selector characters, you can smuggle text inside the smuggled text. Smuggled data can be nested arbitrarily deep.

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Re:Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji by riskable on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @09:47AM (#43025889)

I'm imagining post-incident analysis finding out that, "the data was exfiltrated via some Unicode string..." then they put it up on the screen and it's just an enormous line of turtle emoji

https://emojipedia.org/turtle

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Re:Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji by JadeNB on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:00AM (#43026028)

> I'm imagining post-incident analysis finding out that, "the data was exfiltrated via some Unicode string..." then they put it up on the screen and it's just an enormous line of turtle emoji

Since it took me a minute to make the connection, I'll just say explicitly that I enjoyed the understated "it's turtles all the way down" joke.

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Re:Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji by jodrellblank on Thursday February 13, 2025 @01:53AM (#43033369)

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To see a turtle emoji.

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