[HN Gopher] Null Byte on Steroids
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Null Byte on Steroids
Author : grajaganDev
Score : 17 points
Date : 2025-01-24 08:49 UTC (3 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (medium.com)
| housel wrote:
| Though "null pointer" and "null value" are correct, for bytes it
| should be "NUL byte", since ASCII code point 0 is NUL.
| SAI_Peregrinus wrote:
| In Unicode it's named "NULL", line one of UnicodeData.txt[1] is
| `0000;<control>;Cc;0;BN;;;;;N;NULL;;;;`. Unlike ASCII
| characters Unicode code point names can be more than 3 letters.
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| [1] https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
| SSchick wrote:
| The censoring/redacting used here is insufficient, you can layer
| the censored text to recontruct sufficient text to identify the
| website.
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