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Indeed yes, but files were hosted for 14 days.
by nilsocket 8y ago
Indeed yes, but files were hosted for 14 days.
- jgrahamc 8y agoI would be much more concerned about people using this site for the transfer of illegal material (such as child abuse imagery). That's something literally any file sharing/image hosting site has to deal with. The 14 day limit won't make a difference as people disseminating that type of material are likely used to having to move it around frequently.
- gorbypark 8y agoI built a proof of concept project that was a lot like transfer.sh at one point in time. My solution was to not only have a time limit but a download limit as well. I'd guess most people transferring files from the command line want to transfer something from one machine to another, or maybe to a few other machines. I was going to allow a transfer limit of 10 transfers before the file/link went dead, which would hopefully deter most nefarious people using it to widely spread files around..
- vageli 8y agoUnless you are storing hashes, what would prevent someone from writing a script that simply reuploads the file to your service after downloading? That would increase the share limit.
- tafycent 8y agoLet's say you generate the identifier for the upload based on the file hash. If you add a timestamp or random nonce then they'll have to redistribute the link to the file every time they re-upload as it will change every time.
- gorbypark 8y agoExactly. Nothing would stop someone from re-uploading it, but they'd end up with a different url which would go dead pretty quick if used to share something publicly.
- goatsi 8y agoThis is a real problem for people hosting filesharing services. Depending on who abuse material gets reported to you might not even be told to remove it, you might just get raided. https://fuwafuwa.moe/nr/freeme/ https://fuwafuwa.moe/nr/freeme/