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I don't find this controversial, but I just find it humorous that some people are using Steam Workshop as free cloud storage now. If the developer was more cle

by dannyw 5y ago

I don't find this controversial, but I just find it humorous that some people are using Steam Workshop as free cloud storage now. If the developer was more clever, they should've used stenography to encode the payload into innocent looking workshop mods.

jpoesen 5y ago
> they should've used stenography to encode the payload into innocent looking workshop mods *steganography
- atoav 5y ago
  Just had the mental image of the dev shredding away with a steno keyboard in order to manually convert the suspicious bits into non-suspicious ones.
gaius_baltar 5y ago
This will happen everywhere. I was a bit surprised when I found people using dockerhub to store warez, but was a so obvious thing after all... that's a place were big chunks of data are expected. Example: https://hub.docker.com/r/ampicvever/photoshop-cs4-download-cracked-photoshop https://hub.docker.com/r/ampicvever/photoshop-cs4-download-c...
- piaste 5y ago
  Those links don't hold any tags, it seems they're just using DH as a highly-ranked website to spam shady URLs in the readme. If they actually packaged pirated software as Docker images, that would be more interesting. For one it would be less annoying than the split-volume RARs that a lot of warez still gets published as :)
  - gaius_baltar 5y ago
    Oh, I did not notice this and really thought they were distributing the warez as images! The whole situation just became less interesting now.
rasz 5y ago
It wasnt some people. This appears to have been a developer of video player pre-seeding workshop with Asian pr0n for Chinese market? There are other examples on steam forum of some screen savers having workshop flooded with JAV "content" by Chinese IPs. Perhaps great firewall blocks access to this type of material, and Steam is a convenient distribution channel.
danpalmer 5y ago
Just a friendly FYI… Stenography: transcoding speech into text Steganography: concealing data in other non-secret data.

by dannyw 5y ago

jpoesen 5y ago

> they should've used stenography to encode the payload into innocent looking workshop mods *steganography

atoav 5y ago
Just had the mental image of the dev shredding away with a steno keyboard in order to manually convert the suspicious bits into non-suspicious ones.

gaius_baltar 5y ago

This will happen everywhere. I was a bit surprised when I found people using dockerhub to store warez, but was a so obvious thing after all... that's a place were big chunks of data are expected. Example: https://hub.docker.com/r/ampicvever/photoshop-cs4-download-cracked-photoshop https://hub.docker.com/r/ampicvever/photoshop-cs4-download-c...

piaste 5y ago
Those links don't hold any tags, it seems they're just using DH as a highly-ranked website to spam shady URLs in the readme. If they actually packaged pirated software as Docker images, that would be more interesting. For one it would be less annoying than the split-volume RARs that a lot of warez still gets published as :)
- gaius_baltar 5y ago
  Oh, I did not notice this and really thought they were distributing the warez as images! The whole situation just became less interesting now.

rasz 5y ago

It wasnt some people. This appears to have been a developer of video player pre-seeding workshop with Asian pr0n for Chinese market? There are other examples on steam forum of some screen savers having workshop flooded with JAV "content" by Chinese IPs. Perhaps great firewall blocks access to this type of material, and Steam is a convenient distribution channel.

danpalmer 5y ago

Just a friendly FYI… Stenography: transcoding speech into text Steganography: concealing data in other non-secret data.