Q & A: Odd Characters in E-Mail
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Why is it that in some e-mail messages, certain letters or punctuation marks are often replaced by question marks in the message body?
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Q: Last week I installed Microsoft Office 2007 and on the same day my spellchecker for outgoing messages in Outlook Express didn't recognize words like "you,""then," and "the," so I became suspicious.
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Beware the feature that tries to figure out who you are sending by the first few letters. It's not always right, as Eli Lilly found out the hard way.
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By JAKE COYLE  It's old news that e-mail and texting expressions like "LOL" and "OMG" have made inroads into language. Beyond the new slang, though, Internet companies and Web sites have formed a particular grammatical and graphic style of their own.
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The project supports domain names from different languages and alphabets, such as Arabic and Chinese, that can't be rendered in the ASCII character set.
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Q: What is the best thing to do if you send an e-mail to someone by mistake, and the e-mail contains some content that is not favorable toward that person?
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To set things right about a misquote on Slashdot, Zeev Suraksi has posted this long statement mentioning what he really said and a few more personal opinions.   I've just been misquoted on Slashdot, as if I said there are no security problems in PHP itself, and that I instead point my finger only at inexperienced developers. If you read the original article on Heise Security, you'll see that I have not said anything of the sort. [...] I believe this is the belief of most others on the security team, but I'm only speaking on behalf of myself and do not represent them.   He also covers five more points pertaining to the article and the situation:  Where the bugs/problems lie with problems in PHP Why there are security problems in web PHP applications Why the current security level can be partially blamed on the language itself An admission that yes, there are security problems in PHP And the track record the PHP developers have had in fixing these issues  There's much more than just these brief highlights here, so I encourage you to head on over and check out the full post for yourself.   There are some other opinions on the matter from a few others out there too:  cyberlot's blog Zend Developer Zone's post Tony Bibbs' blog
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Internet spammers launched a widespread attack on e-mail inboxes this month. But instead of trying to lure users into opening a corrupted attachment, they're concealing a computer virus in a link to an online greeting card.
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By Jonathan B. Cox, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 17--A growing number of e-mail messages look more like top-secret dossiers.
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Billions of emails are sent around the globe each day but are their true meanings getting across? Maybe not.
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If you get a holiday greeting e-mailed to you, be careful to check where it&#39;s from. There&#39;s a Christmas grinch making its way through cyberspace.
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"What's so funny?" asked a holiday e-card at the top of my Gmail inbox the other day, sent by a friend of mine who writes for "The Daily Show."
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Funky formatting gets Google's e-mail service to cough up prior messages. But the fix is in, a company source says.
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The other day Tim Bray wrote up an interesting piece on java.util.regex.  I sent him off a quick email detailing my past experiences  and he just blogged his feedback .  "Well... yeah, but here's a story. I was kind of surprised at the results on my OS X box, so I took the code and data over to a nearby Windows XP box and got similar results, so I took 'em to a Debian-stable box I had handy and once again, about the same story. "  "Only, not quite the same. Because it was Perl 5.8.1 on one box and 5.8.3 on another and 5.6.1 on the third, and the i18n/regex code was slightly different in each version, and no two of them gave quite the same results. "  "Now, I'll grant that Unicode/i18n is one ...
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In his latest blog entry, Ilia Alshanetsky has proposed (and provided) a patch that can help with one of the more abused of the popular PHP functions out there - mail().   One of the problems with solving the mail() abuse is figuring out who is doing it or perhaps what script was exploited to do it, since the mail() function does not offer any logging mechanism.   To address this problem, he's supplied this patch you can apply to your source to add two new options to the mail function:  enable the addition of the X-PHP-Originating-Script header mail.log (takes a filename) allows you to enable logging of every single mail() call  Check out his entry for more details on configuration options and other functionality included with the patch.
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This is really cool!  I finally get my own comment spam!  For some reason I felt left out of the party.  I just wasn't cool enough for the spammers to consider me worthy of their spam.  Anyway.  I implemented my own little turing test.  Now the comments say:  {{{  Turing Test: Are you a human? (required. Just type yes... this is for automated spam prevention)  }}}  While this wouldn't work for all blogs in the wild I'm sure it will work just fine here in my little corner of the blogosphere.  If spammers really want my blog enough then I'll deploy a captcha.  If they solve the captcha I'll deploy a sentient robot  which will traceroute packets back to the host and then terminate with prejudic ...
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In this post to his blog, Chris Shiflett talks about some issues surrounding character encoding and the cross-site scripting issues it can open up in your application.    In the post [on Good and Bad PHP Code], he provides a few useful PHP interview questions, including some questions from Yahoo. He explains that good PHP code should be Structured, Consistent, Portable and Secure   In the comments, many additional improvements have been suggested, but there's one that has yet to be mentioned. When using htmlspecialchars() without specifying the character encoding, XSS attacks that use UTF-7 are possible.    Included in the post is an example to illustrate the point as well as a solution, a simple one involving the header() function, to help correct the problem and prevent bad things from happening.   Be sure to check out http://shiflett.org/blog/2007/may/character-encoding-and-xss#comments">the comments for more great tips.