{"id":46792,"date":"2025-02-19T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46792"},"modified":"2025-02-19T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:36:43","slug":"hiding-data-in-emoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/19\/hiding-data-in-emoji\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding Data in Emoji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emoji.paulbutler.org\/?mode=encode\">Paul Butler<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/paulgb\/emoji-encoder\">GitHub<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/waxy.org\/2025\/02\/hiding-data-in-emoji\/\">Andy Baio<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/emoji.paulbutler.org\/?mode=encode\">\n<p>This tool allows you to encode a hidden message into an emoji or alphabet letter. You can copy and paste text with a hidden message in it to decode the message.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/paulgb\/emoji-encoder\/blob\/main\/app\/encoding.ts\">does this<\/a> by encoding the text as a sequence of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Variation_Selectors_(Unicode_block)\">variation selectors<\/a> after the emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/19\/hiding-vulnerabilities-in-source-code\/\">Hiding Vulnerabilities in Source Code<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/05\/a-vatican-sized-flag-mystery\/\">A Vatican-Sized Flag Mystery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/19\/unicode-and-copying-and-pasting-code\/\">Unicode and Copying and Pasting Code<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/04\/fingerprinting-swift-code-using-spacecrypt\/\">Fingerprinting Swift Code Using Spacecrypt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Butler (GitHub, via Andy Baio): This tool allows you to encode a hidden message into an emoji or alphabet letter. You can copy and paste text with a hidden message in it to decode the message. It does this by encoding the text as a sequence of variation selectors after the emoji. Previously: Hiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-02-19T21:36:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"4550ec47-f86b-4a3b-b7cb-eabccd12a61e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-02-19T21:36:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ARVDsR_hrSju3y-q8zRKmHg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[257,2616,74,258],"class_list":["post-46792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-emoji","tag-fun-hack","tag-opensource","tag-unicode"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46793,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46792\/revisions\/46793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}