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The author's website is incredibly clever: http://cb.vu/

It's a fake terminal but it's surprisingly fully functional (lots of commands work, tab autocompletion, etc.)



It simulates file creation, which can then be retrieved from your browser's cookies using a normal-looking URL. I like it. Incredibly clever indeed.


It's a great idea, but it captures the Tab key completely.

That is, within the shell you can't switch through your browser tabs via Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Shift+Tab.

(Maybe this is the fault of Firefox. Why should it grant any web application the right to redefine essential browser navigation keystrokes?)


Haha, try su to root, then rm -rf / and see the results.


holy SHIT it even has vi.


You mean: holy shit, it has a functional SSH terminal!


"sudo is for wimps"


no sandwiches :(


Cool... It even has fortune.


Maybe he'll make this available. It'd be fun to mess around with.


Snake is a lot of fun.




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