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Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by CJefferson on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:31PM (#30064970)
Turns out Google also hates 500, 174, 833, 285 and 302 (from generating files from -1000 to 1000).
Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by apocalyptic0n3 on Monday January 24, 2022 @06:17PM (#30065505)
This is relatively new then. As part of some testing last summer for how to handle a migration from one Drive to another, I generated a folder that had I think 10k files in it. They were all named 1.txt, 75.txt, 8492.txt and their contents matched the filename (i.e. 1, 75, 8492). They never got flagged for me. That was for a Google Workspace account, though, and they were deleted a few days later once I was done with the tests.
Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by tyingq on Monday January 24, 2022 @06:19PM (#30065530)
I did notice it flagged "1", "1\n", but not "1\r\n". Then, it didn't flag "0", but did flag "0\n". So line endings seem to matter as well, but not in some consistent way.
Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by SecurityLagoon on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:14AM (#30069077)
They are probably on some kind of hash list accidently. Its probably not about the content as such.
Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by CJefferson on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:58PM (#30065294)
Another bunch of numbers got flagged (186, 451, 336, 173, 266). I deleted the experiment, just in case I got my account deleted for too many naughty numbers.
Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by Mathnerd314 on Monday January 24, 2022 @06:14PM (#30065471)
That probably looks even more suspicious.
Re:Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright... by tyingq on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:42PM (#30065106)
That's interesting. 500 and 302 popped into my head as common HTTP status codes. The others don't seem notable to me.