Using variation selectors, you can conceal messages of arbitrary length within emoji, or indeed any unicode character. "To be ...

By chaining the selectors together, he was able to encode invisible messages inside an emoji (or any other Unicode character) ...

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Paul Butler tests and demonstrates the flexibility of encoding hidden messages within Unicode characters, including emoji.

Butler said it is highly unlikely that anyone would be able to use this method to hide malware or malicious code in an emoji.

The concept revolves around Unicode's system of representing text as a sequence of codepoints, with each codepoint being a number assigned meaning by the Unicode Consortium.

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First introduced in January 2021, Microsoft Teams reactions give users a quick and easy way to show their approval (or not) to chat messages and on calls, covering a range of emojis and symbols ...

On his birthday, I watched for her text and saw it had heart emojis on either side of her message. This bothered me a great deal, and I told him his flirting via texting needed to stop.

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A forthcoming update to PowerToys will add media transcoding options to the Advanced Paste actions dialog. In a nutshell this means that if you copy an audio or video file and then hit a keyboard ...