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bigfishrunningtoday at 1:28 PM1 replyview on HN

They should have just had the base64 block and forced you to decode and read it before running it, rather then having the `eval` bit at the beginning...


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kijintoday at 2:27 PM

But that wouldn't have looked like a bash script, only a random sequence of characters. The shebang at the start definitely contributes to the geek factor.