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Delightful, I was initially worried it was a variant of the 2000 worm "ILOVEYOU"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU

ILOVEYOU source code: http://www.cexx.org/loveletter.htm

I remember playing with this for hours. Also, having to fix my box when it hit. :)

Reminds me of http://aem1k.com/world/

Wow!

Thank you kind internet stranger. Now, how does it work?

I'm puzzled as to how he got an alert to appear without alert anywhere in the script.

If he can get a reference to the window or 'this' at any point (which I haven't yet figured out), he can presumably use his string-building tricks to build the string "alert", then use:

    window["alert"]("hello")

(it's lucky that all of the letters in "alert" can be found in "true" and "false", although "undefined", "NaN" and "[object Object]" could probably be used too.)

Oh, thank you. I did not notice there was an alert because I did not run the page.

I thought it was just cleverly shaped code that did nothing, decidedly less impressive.

It's quite clever, the script gets a reference to the function prototype by making the string "constructor" and calling (0)["constructor"]["constructor"]. Calling Function on a string returns a new function with the string as the body, which you can then execute.

Partially deobfuscated: http://jsbin.com/qiwib/1/edit?js,output

Just tried to understand the last bit myself.

So he's doing 0["constructor"] which gives the constructor of a number, Number. Then he's 0["constructor"]["constructor"] gives the constructor of Number, which is like a function, so he gets Function.

    var y = (0)["constructor"]["constructor"];
    y == Function;                                 // true

Then he basically does this ($.$ == Function):

    Function(
        Function(
            "return \"alert('I love you');\""
        )()
    )();

The inner function just returns the string "alert('I love you');", which then becomes the body for the outer function.

I don't know why they didn't make it:

Function ("alert('I love you');")();

Maybe they needed more chars for the heart. That was a good little crash course in javascript Function constructors!

I was a bit confused by the double Function call too. The string input to the first Function is:

    "return"ale\162t(\"\111\40lo\166e\40\171ou.\"\40)""

which when evaluated becomes:

    "alert("I love you." )"

He gets the other letters from names of types and other JS native things. I guess he couldn't get 'r', 'I', ' ', 'v' or 'y' and so had to make them using the octal escape codes.

It's actually understandable, just tedious. Lot of dynamic typing/casting tricks.

First, we set var '$' to bitwise NOT of [], which is -1 ([] casts to 0 or false depending on the operator):

     $ = ~[];

Then we re-set $ to an object:

     $ = {___: ++$,
          $$$$: (![]+"")[$],
          ...

Which gives us:

     $.___ == 0 // ($ was still -1, now it's 0)
     $.$$$$ == "f" // I think

The "f" is a bit clever:

     ![] == false
     (![]+"") == "false"
     (![]+"")[$] is an index on the string, and $ is now 0

That's as far as I've bothered. (edited for formatting)

Nothing says "I love you" like a valentine made of dollars signs.

I've used similar tricks to build this hideous creature:

http://jsbin.com/yecuh/1/edit?js,console

(click run)

does anyone know what kind of obfuscator is used here? or is this hand crafted?

It's almost certainly hand crafted.

Good way to start the morning. Love me some loving code.

More horrible things you can do with javascript.

How romantic! <3 <3 <3

How much time did this take?

I don't even know you!.

Very cute.

a java script code for valentine for geeks are ok with valentine:)

That was pretty neat!

I love you too :-)

I love you more.

I love you too.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaw!

Awwww

Aliens.

hahah, awesome.

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