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schoen 3 days ago

This is great. It feels like a central example of the phenomenon of parser differentials (and nice use of tools to find them more efficiently).

Also, as the lead author's name is spelled the same as an English pronoun, we can anticipate natural language parsing ambiguities from writing about this research in English prose! For example, "You discovered that there are many opportunities for parser differentials due to the underspecified nature of the ZIP format" or "You described a practical method of bypassing plagiarism detectors and several other kinds of file content scanners".

Actually, I'm tempted to propose that for the April Fool's Did You Know? on Wikipedia next year. "Did you know ... that You won a Usenix Security award for finding ways to construct ambiguous texts?"