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I try to read scripts before I download and execute. The only time I thought WTF was this:

https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

Even though the author made it clear something funny was about to happen - I just could not execute.

When I showed it to the guy next to me (at work) - he said he already installed it on another box and didn't even look.

Where is the WTF in that script? Just because the author chose a base-85 encoding over base64? (That's a little weird, as I suspect the savings are so minor as to not be worth it …)

it could be base3, base64, base84.. that does not matter.

The part that I find interesting is how many people who read the script are going to decode the blob and verify that the blob is non-malicious.

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