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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers - Ars Technica

Published by Ars Technica By Dan Goodin · 4 September 2026 at 20:18
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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers - Ars Technica
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A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

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