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The difference would be that files would be hosted by Twitter directly and would not use third parties' services.

• jdwhit2 15y ago
  Would it be easy for you to encode the same information as a png image and post that using twitpic? What would the resultant image look like?
  • icebraining 15y ago
    Well, in this case the information is a JPEG file, so it should look good as a PNG image ;) But more to the point, there's a guy who stored JS code in PNG images[1], and any binary string could be used instead. [1]: http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/compression-using-canvas-and-png.html http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/compression-using-canvas-an...
  • stock_toaster 15y ago
    I recall something about storing rar archives in jpg files, as jpg ignores trailing bits and rars ignore heading bits..or something like that.
    • ceol 15y ago
      http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/hide-file-in-picture/ http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/hide-file-in-p...
    • icebraining 15y ago
      Some websites optimize that away, though.
  • nsmartt 15y ago
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3499023 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3499023