Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
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Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
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Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#2OCRing this is a nightmare and is a good benchmark to any self-proclaimed good OCR/vision model.
I think though it could likely be easily OCR'd if you give the image to any decent agentic harness with a good vision model, e.g. newest Claude/GPT ones, and tell them to split the image per lines, and then just OCR each line individually.
I wonder if the script itself was written by an LLM before obfuscation? There seem to be a lot of comments in it, but in this case it's still ok :)
Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#3Why does the shirt have an obfuscated bash script on the back?
Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#4Why does the shirt have an obfuscated bash script on the back?
Because it's by Akamai, the blog links to https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/uniqlo-adds-ne...
Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#5Why does the shirt have an obfuscated bash script on the back?
Uniqlo frequently does collaborations. This was one with a tech company
Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#6what if it contained a zero day for tesseract and the script you thought you got is just a throwaway
Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#7Cool! I bought one a few months ago as soon as I spotted it at a Uniqlo store, and later ordered a larger size online—I really love wearing them. But it never occurred to me to look into the story behind them.
Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#8OCRing this is a nightmare and is a good benchmark to any self-proclaimed good OCR/vision model. I think though it could likely be easily OCR'd if you give the image to any decent agentic harness with a good vision model, e.g. newest Claude/GPT ones, and tell them to split the image per lines, and then just OCR each line individually. I wonder if the script itself was written by an LLM before obfuscation? There seem…
Definitely LLM. No humans write that many comments.
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#9I thought it was funny that the author used a variety of OCR tools with mixed success before spending a lot of time manually fixing up the output from the best one, rather than just typing it in
Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#10OCRing this is a nightmare and is a good benchmark to any self-proclaimed good OCR/vision model. I think though it could likely be easily OCR'd if you give the image to any decent agentic harness with a good vision model, e.g. newest Claude/GPT ones, and tell them to split the image per lines, and then just OCR each line individually. I wonder if the script itself was written by an LLM before obfuscation? There seem…
Definitely LLM. No humans write that many comments.
Honestly it's a bit of a shame. I checked and they could've shortened their base64 payload by 304 chars by removing all comments except the top two congratulatory ones, or by 524 if they removed those too.