[ryandrake]

This is a neat hack, but is there a practical use case here for everyday software developers? I sincerely hope that even novice users have better sense than to download a text file from a web site, find a sketchy ZIP file inside the text file, and then follow directions in the text file. It's like downloading a movie from a sketchy web site and in the package you see a RunMe.exe file. The whole thing reeks of red flags that should tell even moderately sophisticated users "This is malware".

[soulofmischief]

I don't know about you, but I've been embedding data into images and sharing them for nearly 20 years. My target audience knows how to correctly consume these files.

Don't coddle the user.