A developer discovers that a Uniqlo t-shirt from Akamai's Peace for All campaign has an obfuscated bash script printed on the back. The script is a base64-encoded, self-evaluating bash program that, when decoded and run, displays an animated sine-wave loop of the 'Peace for All' message in the terminal with color gradients. The post walks through the OCR process used to transcribe the code from the shirt, the base64 decoding, and analysis of the decoded script, including observations about the Consolas font used in the design.
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Is that … a shebang?!OCR was cumbersomeThe decoded scriptDetail: The font choiceLinux, the language of the InternetNot the first230 Impressions