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Hey, So renaming the file doesn't make it run. It makes it accessible.
Sure you could probably work out a string full of character encoding to get access to a file that has some wonky name full of spaces and special characters or, like in this case, you can just rename it to gain access to it and read its contents.
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Hey, So renaming the file doesn't make it run. It makes it accessible.
Sure you could probably work out a string full of character encoding to get access to a file that has some wonky name full of spaces and special characters or, like in this case, you can just rename it to gain access to it and read its contents.