RuhrSec 2016: 'Hacking with Unicode in 2016', Mathias Bynens

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Abstract. This presentation explores common mistakes made by programmers whendealing with Unicode support and character encodings on the Web. Foreach mistake, I explain how to fix/prevent it, but also how it couldpossibly be exploited.

Biography. Mathias is a Belgian web standards freak. He likes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Unicode, performance, and security. At Opera Software he’s a member of the Developer Relations team.

Speaker: Mathias Bynens

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[davewichers]

Excellent talk Mathias. Really interesting stuff.

[EcoAcid]

This is amazing. It was super interesting.

[tfae]

You should also mention that Asian languages benefit from UTF-8 as well, as modern HTML documents contain much more markup (which is pure ASCII) than text.

[thany]

"to make sure we're on the same page"

I see what you did there ;)