Terence Eden’s Blog

Hashtag Steganography

@edenthashtag twitter unicode · 600 words · read ~525 times.

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Steganography (/ˌstɛɡəˈnɒɡrəfi/ is the practice of concealing a file, message, image, or video within another file, message, image, or video. I recently saw someone tweeting the hashtag #ManchesُterDerby Do you see an odd character in the middle? It's an Arabic Damma (U+064F) - a vowel character. Although it comes after the "s" in Manchester, it appears after the "t" because it is a Right-To-Left (RTL) character. Yet, if you click on the hashtag with the extra character, you get through to …