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I once had a silly idea of encoding all my data as images (and other possible formats) and storing them on various sites not designed for storing abitrary files
by kgeist 5y ago
I once had a silly idea of encoding all my data as images (and other possible formats) and storing them on various sites not designed for storing abitrary files such as imgur. For robustness, I'd need to store several copies on different sites, and run a tiny server which would make sure all data is still there and reupload if something was deleted.
- darumderum 5y agoYou could also do this with YouTube Videos btw. There is also a github project doing that iirc
- gus_massa 5y agoOne of my coworkers uploaded all his high resolutions photos to some site (probably Yahoo!Photos ???) and lost the local copy. He was surprised that the site only stored the photos at a lower resolution than the original files.
- bbarnett 5y agoHeh. Almost like having old style photos, you stored the negatives in grandma's garage, but they got wet and now have mold on them. You can still make out who's who in them. Sorta.
- gus_massa 5y agoIn a normal photo, after a resolution change and a lossy compression, you still have the photo. If you encode some binary data in a fake photo, after a resolution change and a lossy compression, you will only get garbage.
- sgtnoodle 5y agoIt depends on the encoding. If it's sufficiently low frequency and includes error correction, then your data could survive. You won't get very good efficiency though!
- aeyes 5y agoI still remember Warez being hidden in JPGs before torrents and general purpose filehosters became popular.
- filmgirlcw 5y agoYes! I remember when I figured out how binaries were encoded for Usenet! I’m old enough to remember Usenet but too young to have used it for anything but warez or media.