This reminds me of a very curious way in the past of distributing small programs/scripts using finger, attaching it base64 encoded in the .plan
% finger xabi
Login: xabi Name:
Directory: /home/xabi Shell: /usr/bin/zsh
On since Mon Jul 17 11:20 (CEST) on pts/0 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
1 second idle
No mail.
Plan:
Latest version of my code (base64 encoded):
-------- 8< ----------- 8< -----------------
SGVsbG8gd29ybGQK
-------- 8< ----------- 8< -----------------