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Paul Battley found an issue involving Unicode characters that look like
periods used to disguise executables on Mac OS X:

http://po-ru.com/articles/osx-trojan/

I think if I were Apple I'd probably just ban these characters in file
names.

-- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim

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