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by argarg 4835 days ago
It took me exactly 20 seconds to get the email address behind this ... and I'm not a professional rebus solver. I just happen to know how a base64 and hex encoded string looks like.
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I thought it's a new way of securing email addresses. I didn't even understood this is a puzzle!
dammit - I thought I had decoded gibberish for 5 minutes there ! COuld not work out what I had done wrong.

when you say 20 seconds did you reach for a bash command ? interested knowing which.

Here is some bash kinda:

curl -s http://blog.balancedpayments.com/balanced-payments-operation... | html2text | grep -P '[^.*]=$' | head -n 1 | base64 -d | sed 's/../0x& /g' | xxd -r -c 100 | rev

You should apply. I'm looking for people like you :)
iwanttomakeadifference@balancedpayments.com

I really wouldn't hire someone who wants to use grep to parse out html[1] :P

Then again, I would not like to work for a place where engineers don't understand this ;)

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/366152

Nah I just googled for an online base64 decoder, then for a hex decoder.
hah!

so much for import base64!!

You gave it away :P
!gnihtyreve ton ,llew
Oh no! Not another puzzle! ;)