Hypertextus Interruptus

BWO!Interruptus!HTML

  17 January 2003

Description

Split words using HTML comments, pairs of zero width tags, or bogus tags.

Example

milli<!-- xe64 -->onaire

Fi</n>nd N</n>ew </n>Fri</n>end</n>s

Vi<b></b>agra

F<XYZ>r<XXYA>ee

Another example comes from Tim Peters, this uses a Microsoft-only HTML tag <comment> to insert ignored text into the word 'Viagra':

Via<comment>6q5r7</comment>gra

Entries

Sound of Silence

Spammers compendium entry - Sound of Silence

The tURLing test

Spammers compendium entry - The tURLing test

WYSI_not_WYG

Spammers compendium entry - WYSI_not_WYG

Internet Exploiter

Spammers compendium entry - Internet Exploiter

The Microdot

Spammers compendium entry - The Microdot

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