[funsec] Things You Can't Say in Notepad

[Mary Landesman]

I can reproduce the following, i.e. it's replaced with the white 
boxes/Chinese characters:

Bush hid the facts
this app can break

I cannot get either of the following to work (or not work, as the case may 
be):

This app can break
Mary had new lambs

Seems there may be something else at play besides just the 4,3,3,5 lengths.

-- Mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drsolly" <drsollyp at drsolly.com>
To: "Fergie" <fergdawg at netzero.net>
Cc: <funsec at linuxbox.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [funsec] Things You Can't Say in Notepad


> 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
>>
>> - ferg
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>>  fergdawg at netzero.net or fergdawg at sbcglobal.net
>>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>>
>>