Context: Admiral Patrick replied and included this gem:
And might I add that not one person complained until db0 went internet Karen with his hissy fit because I took his toy away from him.
“Not one person complained about my explicitly obfuscated blacklists! Damn internet Karens making a big deal!”


Genius thought nobody would ever read the source code…
They tried to hide it by putting it in a non-plaintext format downloaded at runtime, the actual list isn’t in the source code.
Yeah, but … they didn’t think anybody would read the source, see it calling to download that file, and wonder ‘what’s that file for?’
it’s worse than that.
they thought base64 encoding was encryption 🤣