News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Store files inside of YouTube videos by ggerganov on Monday February 20, 2023 @08:09AM (#34867747)
Yes - more of this please :)

Tangentially related and discussed in the past on HN: File transfer via color barcodes and a phone camera

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25459501

[1] https://github.com/sz3/libcimbar

[2] https://cimbar.org

Re:Store files inside of YouTube videos by egberts1 on Monday February 20, 2023 @02:25PM (#34871768)
Oh boy, OpSec should pay attention to this.
Re:Store files inside of YouTube videos by thombat on Monday February 20, 2023 @03:19PM (#34872383)
It starts with "no monitors facing windows" and "all visitors hand over phones and any other devices with photographic possibilities" and moves up the paranoia/professional caution scale from there.
Re:Store files inside of YouTube videos by sz3 on Monday February 20, 2023 @07:04PM (#34874635)
Aha! I was wondering where the github stars were coming from. :)

I did get a kick out of this from the OP: > Binary: Born from YouTube compression being absolutely brutal. RGB mode is very sensitive to compression as a change in even one point of one of the colors of one of the pixels dooms the file to corruption.

It's more than youtube compression -- video compression in general wreaks absolute havoc on our meticulously arranged (and sometimes colored) pixels. It's actually pretty fun/instructive to step through the transition between (what you want to be) two distinct frames when you're trying to (ab)use video for this sort of use case -- there are segments of the frames that get correlated and "flip" together first, resulting in in-between frames that are gibberish even with a modest amount of ECC in play.