Control Freak

TA!ControlFreak!Plain

  15 September 2003

Description

Use of non-printing characters, especially in the Subject and especially NUL to mess up filters that use 0 terminated strings.

Example

Entries

No Whitespace, No Cry

Spammers compendium entry - No Whitespace, No Cry

Honey, I shrunk the font (HTML)

Spammers compendium entry - Honey, I shrunk the font

Honey, I shrunk the font (CSS)

Spammers compendium entry - Honey, I shrunk the font

Bogus Login

Spammers compendium entry - Bogus Login

A Numbers Game

Spammers compendium entry - A Numbers Game

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