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Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by S-E-P »

lb1lf wrote: post #143

-Back in the day when file sharing was new, I won two rounds of beer from my friends in university - the first after I tried what I dubbed hardcore backups (Tarred, gzipped and pgp'd an archive, slapped an avi header on it, renamed it britney_uncensored_sex_tape[XXX].avi or something similar, then shared it on WinMX assuming that as hard drive space was free and teenage boys were teenage boys, at least some of those…

You devil! I'm pretty sure I remember running into a file that looked like that and a quick poke around showed it wasn't anything valid.

Funny how these things work since I'm pretty sure I remember running into it around 2008 (i'm a few years younger).

I think i just deleted it though since I was suspicious of most strange files back then; I was the nerd who didn't have friends so i used to troll forums for anything i could get my hands on.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by momofarm »

umvi wrote: post #26

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 we could use this technique at place which gov will censored senstive data upload to streaming site like mainland china or North Korea(they do have streaming site right?)

although for propganda use, shortwave / sat tv is a much much simpler way to distribute information to place like that, but I belive now its hard to get one SW radio for anyone.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by alphabet9000 »

pingtickle wrote: post #218

Before broadband was widely available, TiVo used to purchase overnight paid programming slots across the US and broadcast modified PDF417 video streams that provided weekly program guide data for TiVo users. There's a sample of it on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUgT2YoPzI but they usually wrapped a 60-second commercial before and after the 28-minute broadcast of data. There was enough error correction in…

i made something like this for live streaming encrypted audio/video, but for the web, if you are interested: http://pitahaya.jollo.org

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by ranger_danger »

sevenf0ur wrote: post #14
metadat wrote: post #2

Could youtube-dlp and YouTube Vanced now be hosted on.. YouTube? I wonder how long it'd take for Google to crack down on the system abuse. Is it really abuse if the videos are viewable / playable? Presumably the ToS either already forbids covert channel encoding or soon will.

Probably breaks TOS under video spam

Then how is Roel Van de Paar allowed to be on youtube?

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by hnlmorg »

414techie wrote: post #229
pingtickle wrote: post #218

Before broadband was widely available, TiVo used to purchase overnight paid programming slots across the US and broadcast modified PDF417 video streams that provided weekly program guide data for TiVo users. There's a sample of it on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUgT2YoPzI but they usually wrapped a 60-second commercial before and after the 28-minute broadcast of data. There was enough error correction in…

That is really interesting. I wonder if there were any other interesting uses of paid programming to solve problems like these around that time?

Not paid for programming but essentially the same tech: VHS games used to encode data in exotic ways so that the content was both viewable on regular TVs with a regular VHS player, but also had some kind of playable content.

https://youtu.be/WI133HNGNfk

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by bradwood »

S-E-P wrote: post #271
lb1lf wrote: post #143

-Back in the day when file sharing was new, I won two rounds of beer from my friends in university - the first after I tried what I dubbed hardcore backups (Tarred, gzipped and pgp'd an archive, slapped an avi header on it, renamed it britney_uncensored_sex_tape[XXX].avi or something similar, then shared it on WinMX assuming that as hard drive space was free and teenage boys were teenage boys, at least some of those…

You devil! I'm pretty sure I remember running into a file that looked like that and a quick poke around showed it wasn't anything valid. Funny how these things work since I'm pretty sure I remember running into it around 2008 (i'm a few years younger). I think i just deleted it though since I was suspicious of most strange files back then; I was the nerd who didn't have friends so i used to troll forums for anything…

"running into it"... Yeah. Right. ;)

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by ranger_danger »

8K832d7tNmiQ wrote: post #55

I remember seeing this first discussed at 4chan /g/ board as a joke wether or not they can abuse Youtube's unlimited file size upload limit, then escalated into a proof of concept shown in the repo :)

They also experimented with encoding videos and arbitrary files into different kinds of single (still) image formats, some of them able to be uploaded to the same 4chan thread itself, with instructions on how to decode/play it back. Examples:

https://dpaste.com/HFTKAPM5V

https://github.com/fangfufu/Converting-Arbitrary-Data-To-Vid...

https://github.com/rekcuFniarB/file2png

https://github.com/nzimm/png-stego

https://github.com/dhilst/pngencoder

https://github.com/EtherDream/web2img

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by self_awareness »

Popularity of such projects is the reason of imposing more and more constraints on systems that are somewhat open (at least open to use). Maybe instead of figuring out how to abuse an easy-to-use system, people should figure out how to abuse hard-to-use systems, like e.g. creation of open protocols for closed systems. That would be an actual achievement.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by alexb_ »

cush wrote: post #231
daenz wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Links die. As long as the video exists, the files that the video uses will always exist.

As if videos don't die...

well the point is the video and the file are linked - the video cannot exist without the file
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