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by xabi 1069 days ago
This reminds me of a very curious way in the past of distributing small programs/scripts using finger, attaching it base64 encoded in the .plan

  % finger xabi
  Login: xabi              Name:
  Directory: /home/xabi                Shell: /usr/bin/zsh
  On since Mon Jul 17 11:20 (CEST) on pts/0 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
   1 second idle
  No mail.
  Plan:
  Latest version of my code (base64 encoded):

  -------- 8< ----------- 8< -----------------
  SGVsbG8gd29ybGQK
  -------- 8< ----------- 8< -----------------