Hiding evil code in invisible unicode

Hal Murray halmurray at sonic.net
Sat Apr 19 08:14:13 UTC 2025


We allow/require UTF-8 rather than simple ASCII.  I know we need that to 
get the character for micro, as in microseconds.  Do we need it for 
anything else?

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I saw a note recently about AI being susceptable to hiding evil code in invisible unicode.

New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot and Cursor: How Hackers Can Weaponize 
Code Agents
  https://www.pillar.security/blog/new-vulnerability-in-github-copilot-and-
cursor-how-hackers-can-weaponize-code-agents

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Is there a package we should be using that checks code for invisible unicode?


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