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thirsteh on Aug 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Decrypt.py: Act like a decrypting hacker on tv

wget https://raw.github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt/master/decrypt.py; chmod +x decrypt.py; ls -la | ./decrypt.py

It doesn't bite.

walrus on Aug 7, 2012 [–]

It's also super short, so you can easily glance over the source code to make sure it's not doing anything shady (it's not).

jtwaleson on Aug 8, 2012 | [–]

Yes, make sure you inspect it before executing... If someone hijacks my github account, puts on some bad code and you run this, you're screwed.

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