I was looking to make some minor modifications on my site theme today, namely in the footer. Basically all I wanted to do was add a copyright notice, and a small statement that it was a modified theme of an original, which I was willing to keep a credit for in the footer.

I really hadn’t looked into it too much before, but when I checked out my footer.php file, I came across a base64 encoded string. Basically, someone decided to encode the footer information so… Continue reading