Profanity Filtering 101: Repeat Characters
- By Brian Pontarelli
- CleanSpeak
- August 30, 2013
The fourth in a series of posts about the finer points of profanity filtering...
Repeat characters is another commonly used filter attack that involves the simple repetition of characters in a word. This straightforward tactic still fools many profanity filters, most of which are not designed to ignore multiple instances of the same character:
- heeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllooooooooooooo
CleanSpeak's Profanity Filter is capable of detecting this type of filter attack and will correctly and automatically identify words regardless of the use of repeated characters.
Further Reading:
Profanity Filtering 101: The Grawlix
Profanity Filtering 101: Character Replacements & Leet Speak
Profanity Filtering 101: Phonetics