RedditStorage

#1

Post by newtonapple » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:44 PM UTC

Re: RedditStorage

#2

Post by Vexs » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 9:59 PM UTC

Well there's some pretty amusing abuse. I recall there was a botnet a while back that got it's commands from a subreddit as well. Quite brilliant actually- who would suspect reddit as a command server?

Re: RedditStorage

#3

Post by deelowe » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 10:00 PM UTC

Welp. This won't last very long. :-)

Re: RedditStorage

#4

Post by rndn » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 10:00 PM UTC

There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)

Re: RedditStorage

#5

Post by s_dev » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 10:10 PM UTC

I think this will break your ToS with reddit and result in a ban on the account. That said, I don't know. It's kinda cool though.

Re: RedditStorage

#6

Post by Zikes » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 10:10 PM UTC

rndn wrote: post #4

There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)

A stenographed image embedded in a Word document, printed and faxed to a document archive that scans and digitizes it, embeds the scan in a PDF, and emails it back to you.

Re: RedditStorage

#7

Post by Mithaldu » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 10:11 PM UTC

rndn wrote: post #4

There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)

> most implausible data storage medium

That still works well!

It's easy to make something bizarre and unusable. Have it bizarre and surprisingly usable. :D

Re: RedditStorage

#8

Post by Zikes » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 10:12 PM UTC

Mithaldu wrote: post #7

rndn wrote: post #4

There should be a contest: Who can find the most implausible data storage medium? (Rated according to various criteria such as ingenuity, reliability, max. data read/write rates, latency, storage size, costs…)

> most implausible data storage medium That still works well! It's easy to make something bizarre and unusable. Have it bizarre and surprisingly usable. :D

Darn, that rules mine out, then.

Fax is about as unusable as you can get...

Re: RedditStorage

#9

Post by empyrical » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 10:12 PM UTC

Pretty clever. If it was stored in reddit's wiki system instead of comments, it could have a revision history!

Re: RedditStorage

#10

Post by Someone1234 » Thu, Jun 04, 2015, 10:12 PM UTC

Shame an encryption key is REQUIRED, could be a useful way to transfer files between Reddit users. Of course the file has to be encoded, but the encryption should be an optional extra.