tools/ci/founder-strings.b64 was the founder check's pattern list base64-encoded: a grep could not read it, any reader of the public host could (git.igneum.network was public from 21:26 UK; read off at 21:36). The list now lives only in a private file (~/.config/igneum/founder-strings on the Mac, /srv/discord-hooks/founder-strings on build-1 for the Discord guard; $IGNEUM_FOUNDER_STRINGS overrides) and site/forbidden-strings.txt carries no encoded copy. Readers: founder-strings-check.sh (skips with a line where the file is absent; the Mac's hook is the guard), site/scrub.mjs and launch-gates-check.mjs (the private file's patterns added where it exists), discord-hooks.mjs (three locations; the test writes a fixture list and loads the module after it), fresh-repo.sh (the private file; drops tools/ci/founder-strings.b64 from every commit; rewrites the base64 of every list regex out of every blob and scans for it).
The check's second pass (main's addition): every base64 literal of 24 characters or more, every hex literal of 24 or more and every *.b64 file is decoded and scanned, so no encoding hides a term again; the self-test plants each fixture sample in plain text, in a .b64 file, as a base64 literal and as a hex literal, each caught and named, and a tree without the list skips with its line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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