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Why do I nkeep seeing users like honeysbunny here?

Posted: 07-15-2008, 02:06 AM
Dauphin de Viennois
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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.
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Elrik_C
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Re: Why do I nkeep seeing users like honeysbunny here?
Posted: 07-15-2008, 04:55 AM

That's what Kanji looks like for those who don't hav
Japanese fonts installed

Unlike the Latin Alphabet, Kanji has as many as 256 symbol
if I am not mistaken

If a logon screen were to use the full Kanji set with
phrase length of at least 25 symbols long, it woul
be almost impossible for hackers to break with
Rainbow Table brute force password cracker

Until we have such a logon option we are all at the merc
of hackers no matter how secure we may think our passwords are. :

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Re: Why do I nkeep seeing users like honeysbunny here?
Posted: 07-15-2008, 01:42 PM

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.


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Re: Why do I nkeep seeing users like honeysbunny here?
Posted: 07-15-2008, 03:58 PM
Dauphin de Viennois <spamtrap@on.here> 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...

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Dauphin de Viennois
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Re: Why do I nkeep seeing users like honeysbunny here?
Posted: 07-16-2008, 09:36 AM
"Andy [YaYa]" <android8675@MAPSONhotmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns9ADC512BD1D1Candroid8675hotmailco@207.46.2 48.16:
> 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.
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