Dear Mods/Admin: Why Is This Word Forbidden?

[ViRGE]

Over in Operating Systems, mechBgon attempted to post a link to the Microsoft Security Research Center's(M.S.R.C) blog, which includes that acronym in the link. As it turns out, that acronym is a banned word(I'm using periods to get around it) and ****** gets bleeped out. Now I can't think of a reason to make their blog verboten, and I don't know of that phrase having any other significant use as far as the forums is concerned(it's not a HTML or SQL statement, for example).

So why is this word banned? And if there's not a good reason, could we have it unbanned?

 

[xtknight]

src is forbidden even, I think.

Such as, the path to the linux source code: /usr******

I don't know why. Any word with "[A-z]*src" in it seems to get fully censored. Probably img (source)= HTML exploits maybe.

To get it around it in web pages use tinyurl or obfuscate one affected character with hexadecimal, i.e.:

http://blogs.technet.com/ms%72c/archive...icrosoft-security-advisory-935423.aspx

In this example, the "r" in ms_r_c is replaced with %72, 72 being the hexadecimal code for "r" (asciitable.com). You can't do HTML tags this way, so this is not able to pass the exploit prevention method they put in place.

 

[cubby1223]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1873835&enterthread=y&arctab=y

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1873835&enterthread=y&arctab=y

Ahh, so Fusetalk does use****** as an internal tag. Fair enough, if not a bit of a blunt solution. Thanks.