A security researcher claims to have discovered a way to hide extra information inside emoji.

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Paul Butler tests and demonstrates the flexibility of encoding hidden messages within Unicode characters, including emoji.

The concept revolves around Unicode's system of representing text as a sequence of codepoints, with each codepoint being a number assigned meaning by the Unicode Consortium.

Using variation selectors, you can conceal messages of arbitrary length within emoji, or indeed any unicode character. "To be ...

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Butler said it is highly unlikely that anyone would be able to use this method to hide malware or malicious code in an emoji.

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