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> If you host blobs for free, somebody is going to use you as their host. Even if you just hosted audio, I'm sure somebody will quickly come along with a stegan
by htrp 5y ago
> If you host blobs for free, somebody is going to use you as their host. Even if you just hosted audio, I'm sure somebody will quickly come along with a steganography tool to hide their content on your site (and use your bandwidth).
This feels like something more of a theoretical example cited versus something that has happened. Do you have any examples of steganography being used as bandwidth redirection/hosting?
- joshuamorton 5y agohttps://handwiki.org/wiki/GmailFS https://handwiki.org/wiki/GmailFS https://github.com/maxchehab/redditfs https://github.com/maxchehab/redditfs etc etc.
- michaelpb 5y agoNot at all theoretical, this happens all the time. There are tools like StegoShare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StegoShare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StegoShare I googled and one of the top articles was this (I didn't read it): https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/070817/worrying-trend-in-hackers-using-steganography.html https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/070... I couldn't find the article I had read a few years back, but I remember this sort of thing being used to host content on Facebook, Wikipedia, Reddit, etc, before they cracked down on it.
- jcun4128 5y agoRecently saw a post about using imgur to host websites by the website code embedded in images (steganography?)
- TravisHusky 5y agoI did this when I was in high school for fun. I used a poorly designed comment system somebody designed and used it to transfer files around hidden in gibberish comments. Maybe not the most common thing, but more common than you would expect.
- MauranKilom 5y agoMany examples (maybe not exactly steganography, but same spirit) in this discussion from three weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28431716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28431716