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This is pretty ingenious. I wonder what happens if you "host" illegal content in imgur with this?
by ggerganov 5y ago
This is pretty ingenious.
I wonder what happens if you "host" illegal content in imgur with this?
- INTPenis 5y agoThat happens constantly. Imgur have to review all content uploaded, and you can also report it.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoYes, but some img formats are valid even if the end of the file is garbage, meaning you could display a fully functional image, and still host a hidden content. Not easy to check.
- INTPenis 5y agoI see what you mean. In that case someone just has to report it to their abuse department. Eventually someone will locate the offensive image and trace it back to imgur. Even if they can't immediately see it, they can see the abuse reports and investigate. It's a hard life running an image uploading service. You have to wonder how much they're being payed in ad revenue.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoI doubt most of the money comes from ad revenues. More likely, they get more cash from invisible PR campaigns, it's the same goal as ads, but more efficient since imgur user base think the content they see is 100% organic. And so probably sells for a lot more to bigger players.
- croshan 5y agoI think a big portion actually comes from image-hosting for other websites. Stack exchange, for example, uses Imgur for image hosting when you attach an image with your answer.
- social_quotient 5y agoHere is a tool if people are interested - https://stegonline.georgeom.net/upload https://stegonline.georgeom.net/upload I use it a lot for a project trying to detect manipulated images including stego encoded images.
- Traubenfuchs 5y agoJust reencode all uploaded .png. No need to check!
- pjerem 5y agoAnd how can they know that this [0] is illegal ? [0] : https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/article/484c1e1a0c41d4482f6fc12113236a19d75fd3c3.png https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/article/484c1e1a0c41d4482f6fc121132...
- bcraven 5y ago"You don't have permission to access the URL on this server."
- oefrha 5y agoYou need to spoof the Referer (or just copy the link and open it in a new browser tab).
- Jenk 5y agoCould you perhaps qualify what makes that image illegal? I don't want to open it not knowing what I'm in for.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoIt appears to be mostly random-looking pixels with some black streaks and a top section that is noticeably dissimilar to the rest of it. At a guess, it's the encoding of a binary file into pixel color values in a large image.