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What is stopping people making a account, and when sharing the file, give out the account details with the link? Say I upload 50 divx films, and give out that
by darkstar211 15y ago
What is stopping people making a account, and when sharing the file, give out the account details with the link?
Say I upload 50 divx films, and give out that accounts details, so people can freely take what they want, or even add files?
- barik 15y agoWhat equally stops someone from simply logging in using those account details, deleting all the files, or simply changing the password? Feels like whack-a-mole to me.
- ovi256 15y agoProbably nothing, but it could trigger some anti-hacking heuristic that would disable the account. It's also much less convenient than just sharing the link. Plus some troll would just delete all the shared files.
- benton 15y agoThat's probably what they will create next. A special type of account that allows download/upload access to users other than the original owner of the account.
- uptown 15y agoNothing. That actually is a method that's been used by "evil doers" in the past. The government had been monitoring email correspondence using Carnivore. What they found was that instead of sending emails back and forth, a shared inbox was being used, and information was simply being communicated using progressive edits of email drafts. It lived on a server, so it was available for discovery ... but since nothing was flying back and forth, it took awhile before it was detected.