Re:Hosting files in url minifiers
by roywiggins on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @04:49PM
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In the early days of Gmail people were building tools to take advantage of this and expose Gmail to your computer as a filesystem:
Google Drive, for example, re-encodes in place every video file you upload (!). So I wouldn't be surprised if imgur was doing something similar to combat steganography.
Re:Hosting files in url minifiers
by aargh_aargh on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:25PM
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So... you're saying in addition to free storage, I get free computation resources, too?
Re:Hosting files in url minifiers
by thedirt0115 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @06:28PM
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Do they re-encode PDFs too? (I don't use Google Drive)
PDFs are a funny file format where you can do some crazy stuff... see here for examples: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ (click one of the "spoiler" links)
I didn’t know that and that’s kinda annoying. It’s my storage space (which they provide to me for the price my company pays) I should get to fill that with any arbitrary bytes. Why if I stenographically store data as a mpeg that i lose it but if I rename the file .binary i get to keep the data?
Well, you could give them really annoying video formats that they don’t have hardware decoding for…
I mean, in the case of google drive you could also just upload .tar.gz files containing whatever.
It's not like google drive only lets you upload videos.
I wont believe that. Can you show some proof?
Re:Hosting files in url minifiers
by stegasawr_us on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @06:15PM
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Did somebody say: steganography?
Someone created a wiki-based filesystem that stored data as random wiki pages (wikipedia and other wikis).
They automated account creation, and then created pages with large chunks of base64 encoded encrypted content.
Doing this stuff doesn't make you clever, it just makes you an asshole.
There are also places where you can store large amounts of data for free, not even in the cracks.
For example, dockerhub lets you upload large bundles of data (gigabytes of data with no issue) for free. It's s3 backed, so effectively it's free s3 storage.
Image storage sites, like imgur, let you upload tons of images, and you could easily store data steganographically (edit, typo fixed).