tl;dr from the FAQ: Q: "Why should I trust you?" A: "Because you should! We're good people! Honest!" I'd love to trust a service like this, but there's no credible effort to actually establish that trust.
So encrypt client-side?
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#52"Also, no illegal files are allowed." Is this a "(our lawyers made us put this in)" sentence? It's not like there is a .ilgl file type, and with 1 time downloads DCMA takedowns are unlikely.
Do you think that it makes sense for a new ephemeral files hosting site to signal that it accepts child porn on its servers, in a jurisdiction where child porn is completely illegal and can potentially get the creators of the site onto a sex offender list? Is that wise? Why are we punishing people for being careful about this?
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#53I wrote a small shell script to make the upload process painless - (https://github.com/Prajjwal/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/fileio).
This is an extremely useful service, btw. I can see myself using this a lot. Kudos.
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#54I built this site and appreciate any feedback from the HN community
Nice work.
Large files could become a problem, since any request causes the file to be deleted. There is no chance to retry. But, this is the most secure way handle file deletion.
You could offer an option that would delete the file after X% of bytes are downloaded.
I have been working a simple server to do just this, I am calling it a nonce file server. I have been coming across times when I need to deliver a file once, and only once.
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#55Pastebin for binary files? By the look of things, clean and easy to use? Handy!
It's probably time to start thinking about ways to monetise this to pay for the hosting costs at least.
Also, have you talked to a lawyer yet? If this takes off and you keep it up long enough, inevitably you're going to get people using it for child porn, stolen credit card numbers, leaked classified documents, instructions on how to make home-made bombs etc and someday a relevant law enforcement agency is going to want to have a conversation about the content that Mr Smith sent to Mr Jones via your server. It's probably a good idea to get your legal position straight before that day rather than trying to do it after the fact. And yes, I do recommend talking to an actual lawyer. Internet commentary is not an adequate substitute for legal advice here.
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#56I built this site and appreciate any feedback from the HN community
The link should be automatically copied to the clipboard upon creation IMO.
Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing
#57Pastebin for binary files? By the look of things, clean and easy to use? Handy! It's probably time to start thinking about ways to monetise this to pay for the hosting costs at least. Also, have you talked to a lawyer yet? If this takes off and you keep it up long enough, inevitably you're going to get people using it for child porn, stolen credit card numbers, leaked classified documents, instructions on how to make…
Seems like a lot of the issues are mitigated by the file going away after the first download. Especially if there really are no logs or anything at that point.
Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing
#58tl;dr from the FAQ: Q: "Why should I trust you?" A: "Because you should! We're good people! Honest!" I'd love to trust a service like this, but there's no credible effort to actually establish that trust.
Don't trust. Use a client that adds an encryption layer on top of file.io.
Or just encrypt your files.
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#59i personally prefer file.pizza, especially considering it is an open source webrtc implementation that doesn't persist the data via any middle man ( https://github.com/kern/filepizza )
Have you tried http://www.pizzatext.net?
Re: Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing
#60i personally prefer file.pizza, especially considering it is an open source webrtc implementation that doesn't persist the data via any middle man ( https://github.com/kern/filepizza )
More WebRTC p2p services like this:
https://reep.io/ https://rtccopy.com/
And my favorite,