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Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

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Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

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Post by UI_at_80x24 »

nick__m wrote: post #17
UI_at_80x24 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netcat is seriously awesome, and still exists very much under the radar of a lot of people. I've used to to copy files around the planet, the datacenter, and the lab. It excels at doing things "right now". If I have a terminal window open on a server in France and one in the US; then I can easily move that file. However, If I have to move my body to the target location before I can copy the file it doesn't work as we…

I would like to know if there are any advantages to use nc instead of scp ?

You don't need an account on the target system.

Target PC opens a port and starts listening (outputting to file)

Sending machine establishes a connection to the listening port, and starts copying the file.

Example (hide a file transfer as DNS traffic)

Listening computer:

  nc -l -u -p 53 > output.file
Sending computer:

  cat original.file > nc -u [destination ip address] 53
In this case you'd be dumb not to encrypt the file before transit. And as I mentioned already make sure you have a hash of the original.

You can also use TCP. These are sneaky/simple ways to move files around. Downside: You need to poke a hole in a firewall, but options exist for that too.

ssh/scp downside: You need an account on target PC to connect to. nc downside: you need an open port on the listening PC.

Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

How do services like this handle the copyright/malware/child porn problem? That is, I thought the whole reason send.firefox.com shut down was that it became a hub for sharing illegal content and there wasn't a good way to filter that out. If Mozilla couldn't solve that issue for a free service, how can anyone else?

Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

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Post by mritzmann »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #22

How do services like this handle the copyright/malware/child porn problem? That is, I thought the whole reason send.firefox.com shut down was that it became a hub for sharing illegal content and there wasn't a good way to filter that out. If Mozilla couldn't solve that issue for a free service, how can anyone else?

> Files stored for 14 days

I think that's the reason, why this service is not very interesting for illegal content.

Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

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Post by cemsbr »

tptacek wrote: post #8

This is exactly the use case for Magic Wormhole, which is what the cool kids use to transfer files: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole Magic Wormhole uses an end-to-end PAKE to create an encrypted transport between two points in the Internet, using a rendezvous server. It doesn't store files, which is almost never what you want; it's not a way to send a file and have 10 or 100 people download it. But it…

No, it's not. Transfer.sh does not require anything to be installed in both sender and receiver ends. Only the browser is enough.

Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

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Post by PUSH_AX »

mritzmann wrote: post #24
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #22

How do services like this handle the copyright/malware/child porn problem? That is, I thought the whole reason send.firefox.com shut down was that it became a hub for sharing illegal content and there wasn't a good way to filter that out. If Mozilla couldn't solve that issue for a free service, how can anyone else?

> Files stored for 14 days I think that's the reason, why this service is not very interesting for illegal content.

Illegal content is generally ephemeral regardless of where you host it. I don't think this changes much, it could still provide a good home for some illegal things.

Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

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Post by iampims »

cemsbr wrote: post #25
tptacek wrote: post #8

This is exactly the use case for Magic Wormhole, which is what the cool kids use to transfer files: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole Magic Wormhole uses an end-to-end PAKE to create an encrypted transport between two points in the Internet, using a rendezvous server. It doesn't store files, which is almost never what you want; it's not a way to send a file and have 10 or 100 people download it. But it…

No, it's not. Transfer.sh does not require anything to be installed in both sender and receiver ends. Only the browser is enough.

https://webwormhole.io/

Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

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Post by neolog »

iampims wrote: post #27
cemsbr wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's not. Transfer.sh does not require anything to be installed in both sender and receiver ends. Only the browser is enough.

https://webwormhole.io/

That's not actually related to Magic Wormhole, it's "inspired by" it.

Re: Transfer.sh – Easy file sharing from the command line

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Post by zikduruqe »

JackGreyhat wrote: post #15
tptacek wrote: post #8

This is exactly the use case for Magic Wormhole, which is what the cool kids use to transfer files: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole Magic Wormhole uses an end-to-end PAKE to create an encrypted transport between two points in the Internet, using a rendezvous server. It doesn't store files, which is almost never what you want; it's not a way to send a file and have 10 or 100 people download it. But it…

This and croc. Link: https://github.com/schollz/croc

And Eureka: https://github.com/mimoo/eureka
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