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Comment by dmbche

2 months ago

You need to decode the text after copy pasting it, I believe clicking on text will not interact with the obfuscated data since your computer will just find the unicode and ignore the obfuscated data.

This is just so that you can hide data and send it to someone to be decoded (or watermarking as mentionned)

yes, I understand this is not a security risk.

but my fear is precisely that I my be sending data to a remote host while I'm completely unaware of this fact.

I tried to create a POC with some popular url shortner services, but doesn't seems to work.

what I wanted to create was a link like <host.tld>/innoc󠅥󠅣󠅕󠅢󠄝󠅙󠅔󠄪󠅑󠅒󠅓ent that redirects to google.com. in this case the "c" contains some hidden data that will be sent to the server while the user is not aware. this seems possible with the correct piece of software.