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		aaronduino on Jan 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting te... One interesting trick I found for clearing wierd characters from the clipboard in running `pbpaste \| pbcopy` in the (macos) terminal.

sverhagen on Jan 2, 2018 [–]

Just curious why that would do anything? Isn't it the same byte stream coming out that then goes into the other one?

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