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Unicode outpaces ASCII for encoding Web site text, and life gets easier for Google and others that grapple with an increasingly international Internet. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...
Python's Unicode support can be easily abused to hide malicious string matches, making code appear innocuous while still performing malicious behavior. In this case, the stealing of sensitive data ...
I'm trying to get Python's ncurses module to display extended ASCII characters, similar to those found here. I've written a little test program to try and output these characters, but I'm having ...
What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...
However, should the abuse of Unicode for hiding malicious Python code become a trend, it might become cause for concern. "But, whomever this author copied this obfuscated code from is clever ...