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List:       oss-security
Subject:    Re: [oss-security] Re: Terminal Control Chars
From:       "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler () dwheeler ! com>
Date:       2018-04-13 0:07:56
Message-ID: E1f6mFw-0007bA-AS () rmmprod06 ! runbox
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:54:41 +0100, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> I hope you're not proposing that, to protect users of terminal emulators,
> general-purpose web browsers should not allow copying more than a
> paragraph at a time?

Not at all!  My point is that we should be careful about terminology.
"Control characters" already has a well-known standard definition,
using the same term for a different set is confusing & could lead to misimp=
lementation.
Just call them something else that doesn't already have a standard
definition ("dangerous bytes" or whatever).

--- David A. Wheeler=
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