Thanks to Jonathan Ness for pointing me to an example of a new obfuscation technique that attempts to thwart the eval() à alert() trick . Take a look at the following obfuscation script: 1 <script> 2 function N(F,D) 3 { 4 if (!D) D = ' "#%()-./012348:;<=>@ACEGHILMOPRTVWY\\]_abcdefghijlmnopqrstuvwxyz';