https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas

I came across a Python library that passed the ASCII range into one of these non printable character ranges and then into a database. If someone was doing that manually with a hex table, how is that detected and mitigated?

  • MartianSands@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Also, the answer to your actual question is no. There’s definitely no way to block people from using any particular characters at the kernel level.

    What you seem to be asking for is a way to absolutely forbid all software from writing certain characters to files, and/or from reading those characters. Aside from requiring that the kernel inspect all data in detail before letting other software have it, which would slow everything way down, it would prevent anyone from reading or writing binary data which happens to contain those sequences of bytes by coincidence. Binary data includes things like the programs which make the system work, so blocking those characters would be terminal

    • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      Not necessarily. Turn this around. Let’s say I am working at somewhere like a chip foundry with tons of IP. I have no access to encryption tools, but I can easily shift characters to a hex range in bash and send emails.

      These characters can use the control glyph, and so do not print or show up in any physical way except in hex.

      This technique must be obfuscated at every serious organization from governments to industry.

      • Trigg@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Encryption exists manually. This isn’t the problem you appear to imagine it is