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"the attackers are looking for a very specific program with the name written in an extended character set, such as Arabic or Hebrew, or one that starts with a special symbol such as “~”."

I suppose µTorrent is too obvious... Anyway, these kinds of mysteries help re-ignite my interest in Cryptography. I'd love to hear feedback from a fellow HNer about the course from Udacity (perhaps via email since it will probably be considered off-topic here).




I thought about uTorrent too, but Mu has a hex of 0x03BC. Plus it is a popular software and in windows, it's folder in program files uses 'u' instead of Mu.

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/3bc/index.htm




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