devil_hack.py

hidden_bin_string = '01011001001100110101011001110111011000100011'  \
    '001000110100011001110101100100110010001110010110101101011010'  \
    '010101000110111101100111010100110101010100110001010101000101'  \
    '010000110000011110000100011001010010010101100101000101100111'  \
    '01001111011110010110101100111101'

from itertools import groupby
from base64 import b64decode

bit_counts = [0]
def grouper(x):
    """ groups bits into bytes """
    cur_bit_count = bit_counts[-1]
    bit_counts.append(cur_bit_count + 1)
    return cur_bit_count / 8

chr_bit_groups = groupby(hidden_bin_string, grouper)  # bits -> bytes
chr_bit_strs = [''.join(v) for i,v in chr_bit_groups]  # join byte strs
chr_vals = [int(s, base=2) for s in chr_bit_strs]  # convert to ints
base64_code = ''.join(chr(i) for i in chr_vals)  # convert to chrs
print b64decode(base64_code)