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There are many places where you can store infinite data "in the cracks" so to speak. Someone created a wiki-based filesystem that stored data as random wiki pa
by TheDong 8y ago
There are many places where you can store infinite data "in the cracks" so to speak.
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).
- roywiggins 8y agoIn the early days of Gmail people were building tools to take advantage of this and expose Gmail to your computer as a filesystem: http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
- nerflad 8y agoGoogle 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.
- saagarjha 8y agoWell, you could give them really annoying video formats that they don’t have hardware decoding for…
- TheDong 8y agoI 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.
- pducks32 8y agoI 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?
- aargh_aargh 8y agoSo... you're saying in addition to free storage, I get free computation resources, too?
- thedirt0115 8y agoDo 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/ https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ (click one of the "spoiler" links)
- mynewtb 8y agoI wont believe that. Can you show some proof?
- stegasawr_us 8y agoDid somebody say: steganography? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography