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Re: Cloudflare Drop

#121
post #42

Wow the people in this thread are a huge bummer. This is much cooler and I doubt this is a real safety issue. You can already sign up for a free cloudflare account and deploy it for free, on your own, on a free workers.dev domain. The friction removal here isn't going to meaningfully change the security / amount of malicious content.

Corporations acting as if naive is a bit of problem in reality. For one thing, CF is probably the largest entity serving pirated content internationally while hiding the identities of actual perpetrators for privacy.

Same here: CF is basically giving malicious actors an ability to ship contents/data publicly while laundering the legal responsibility of those actors.

Now tell me what is cool

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not exactly a very elaborate name.

Elaborate enough? Funny story: I used to work for a startup which had a trademark on "Airdrop". When Apple announced that feature, it took everyone there by surprise. Ended up reaching out and selling it to them for a buck or two in favor of maintaining goodwill.

Why did you value Apple's goodwill more than a couple million dollars?

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#123
post #3

There must be some really good protection on this. If I enabled such a thing on any of my servers it would be full of warez, porn, malware, CSAM and who knows what else within minutes. Curious how they manage to keep it clean.

The protection is that they're rich enough to handle requests from law enforcement without going to jail themselves. They'll certainly pass your IP address to law enforcement if asked.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A minute ago I had an HTML doc I wanted to share with a PM. It was a Claude prepared demo of a hypothetical feature. Lots of screenshots. I ended up just embedding them directly in the HTML as base64 and sending him a 15mb file, but hypothetically this would have been a nice solution instead.

There are also solutions for sharing your homelab with others (basically tunneling from your machine->server (internet accessible) client. Though, if your machine would go to sleep that whole chain would fall apart. A few good automatic solutions out there that solve the problem (no "just replace dropbox with ftp" type of argument). However, I see the appeal of this. Kind of surprised it hasn't happened yet to be hon…

SSH remote port forwarding. ssh -R 0.0.0.0:80:127.0.0.1:80

Requires the server's sshd config to have GatewayPorts yes, or the server will bind to 127.0.0.1 instead

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#128
Look. Guys (?)

If cloudflare wants to be the next "Megaupload" what business is it of yours?

There is a guy named kim DOT com. That is actually fucking cool. Whether or not he himself is actually cool. Or in prison.

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#129

Netlify made this 10 years ago... they even copied the name! https://app.netlify.com/drop

And BitBalloon before that (which Netlify acquired) http://web.archive.org/web/20131028083240/https://www.bitbal...

BitBalloon was the original project from Matt, the founder of Netlify!

Re: Cloudflare Drop

#130
post #3

There must be some really good protection on this. If I enabled such a thing on any of my servers it would be full of warez, porn, malware, CSAM and who knows what else within minutes. Curious how they manage to keep it clean.

At least when it comes to bad types of porn, it's be similar to Imgur allowing anonymous uploads. They already do CSAM scanning on uploads to their R2 storage:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-simpler-path-to-a-safer-intern...

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