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Re:China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub by lol768 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @07:08AM (#9295454)
The dataType is set to "script" in the AJAX request options. Per the jQuery docs (https://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/#jQuery-ajax-settings), this dataType causes the response to be evaluated as JavaScript in the browser.
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