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Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Back in the day when @gmail was famous for their massive free storage for email, ppl wrote scripts to chunk large files and store them as email attachments.

People did this on AOL in the 90s as well!

Did you manage to get on the latest Mass Mail going out tonight?

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Just gotta add some good 'ol steganography

This brings up an interesting question: what is the upper-bound of hidden data density using video steganography? E.g. how much extra data can you add before noticeable degradation? It's interesting because it requires both a detailed understanding of video encoding and also understanding of human perception of video.

I've seen drone metal videos where the video and audio could both be 90% steganography and I wouldn't know the difference.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Turns out any site that allows users to submit and retrieve data can be abused in the same way: - FacebookDrive: "Store files as base64 facebook posts" - TwitterDrive: "Store files as base64 tweets" - SoundCloudDrive: "Store files as mp3 audio" - WikipediaDrive: "Store files in wikipedia article histories"

I made a tool that lets you store files anywhere you can store a URL: https://podje.li/

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Probably breaks TOS under video spam

Just gotta add some good 'ol steganography

Good luck preserving it through YouTube's video compression. It's super lossy with small details, in bad cases the quality can visibly degrade to a point it looks more like a corrupted low-res video file for a few seconds (saw that once in a Tetris Effect gameplay video).

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Turns out any site that allows users to submit and retrieve data can be abused in the same way: - FacebookDrive: "Store files as base64 facebook posts" - TwitterDrive: "Store files as base64 tweets" - SoundCloudDrive: "Store files as mp3 audio" - WikipediaDrive: "Store files in wikipedia article histories"

My friends and I had a joke called NSABox. It would send data around using words that would attract the attention of the NSA, and you could submit a FOIA request to recover the data. I always found it amusing.

There's a feature in Emacs that does that (unsurprisingly.)

It's called `M-x spook'. It inserts random gibberish that NSA and the Echelon project would've supposedly picked up back in the 90s.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Turns out any site that allows users to submit and retrieve data can be abused in the same way: - FacebookDrive: "Store files as base64 facebook posts" - TwitterDrive: "Store files as base64 tweets" - SoundCloudDrive: "Store files as mp3 audio" - WikipediaDrive: "Store files in wikipedia article histories"

I wonder if access permissions would be easier to maintain using Facebook...

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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My friends and I had a joke called NSABox. It would send data around using words that would attract the attention of the NSA, and you could submit a FOIA request to recover the data. I always found it amusing.

I've heard of the loic ion cannon dos tool described as a shortcut to getting sent to jail. This sounds similar.

Big difference. LOIC actually impacts a target.
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