Only in the Vista groups do I keep seeing usernames like "=?Utf-8?B? aG9uZXlzYnVubnk=?=" all over the place. I kept thinking it was the same person who was a troll or something but now I realize it must be my Xnews newsreader and the default lauguage coding it is using. These people must be using some non standard unicode or something.
That's what Kanji looks like for those who don't have Japanese fonts installed. Unlike the Latin Alphabet, Kanji has as many as 256 symbols if I am not mistaken. If a logon screen were to use the full Kanji set with a phrase length of at least 25 symbols long, it would be almost impossible for hackers to break with a Rainbow Table brute force password cracker. Until we have such a logon option we are all at the mercy of hackers no matter how secure we may think our passwords are. :( -- Elrik_C Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
A lot of folk think it is cool to use ascii symbols in their gaming call signs. They do not always translate into the real world. I always thought it was a bit silly. -- LonesomePolecat
Dauphin de Viennois wrote in news:eKSek.99389$gc5.10025@pd7urf2no: > Only in the Vista groups do I keep seeing usernames like "=?Utf-8?B? > aG9uZXlzYnVubnk=?=" all over the place. I kept thinking it was the > same person who was a troll or something but now I realize it must be > my Xnews newsreader and the default lauguage coding it is using. These > people must be using some non standard unicode or something. They are 2-bit characters, usually Japanese characters, and since this is a Usenet newsgroup, the servers filter them out. You're not really posting to a web forum, that forum is leeching feeds off another server. Kind of like a mini-intranet. Think FidoNet, but more "Internet" based. God I'm old... -- -A.
"Andy [YaYa]" wrote in news:Xns9ADC512BD1D1Candroid8675hotmailco@207.46.248.16: > They are 2-bit characters, usually Japanese characters, and since this > is a Usenet newsgroup, the servers filter them out. You're not really > posting to a web forum, that forum is leeching feeds off another > server. Kind of like a mini-intranet. > > Think FidoNet, but more "Internet" based. God I'm old... > I've been using Usenet since 1993 so know how it works, thanks. Never saw this when I used Thunderbird for reading news so it must be Xnews that is causing it.
