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YouTube as Infinite File Storage
- eternalban 4y ago"I was working on this instead of my finals, hope you appreciate it." We do! https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Infinite-Storage-Glitch https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Infinite-Storage-Glitch p.s. this interesting paper (2014) also showed up in ISG issue regarding file systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2637 https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2637 A fundamental Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) characteristic in Cloud Computing is to be application-specific; depending on the application, Cloud Providers (CPs) restrict data formats and attributes allowed into their servers via a data validation process. An ill-defined data validation process may directly impact both security (e.g. application failure, legal issues) and accounting and charging (e.g. trusting metadata in file headers). Therefore, this paper investigates, evaluates (by means of tests), and discusses data validation processes of popular CPs. A proof of concept system was thus built, implementing encoders carefully crafted to circumvent data validation processes, ultimately demonstrating how large amounts of unaccounted, arbitrary data can be stored into CPs.
- paxys 4y agoAt least until the next time Google decides to slightly tweak its encoding algorithms. Then say goodbye to your data.
- unsignedint 4y agoReminds me of the VR Experience Recording system that one of my friends was working on. https://youtu.be/Tlo0tzbNIW8 https://youtu.be/Tlo0tzbNIW8 Essentially, the encoded position of a VR headset is baked into the video stream, to be retrieved at playback to add positional/rotational contexts to the video.
- 1317 4y agoprevious discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34866808 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34866808