Me and a friend came up with a similar idea of a sort of distributed file system implemented across a huge array of blog comment sections. Of course you’d need a bunch of replication and fault tolerance and the ability to automatically scrape for new blogs to post spammy-looking comments on, but I thought it was a pretty funny and neat idea when we came up with it.
Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
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Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
#12Has anyone actually tried storing a large amount of data like this? I feel like creating a new google account and using it as a backup for a 300gb folder I have.
Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
#13You can also just use GSuite with a few users to get unlimited Google Drive storage.
Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
#14I had an (evil; don't do this) idea a while back to create a Dropbox-like program that stores all your data as binary chunks attached to draft emails spread across an arbitrary number of free email accounts.
This existed just after gmail launched. Can't recall the name of the program, but I played around with it to store a few hundred MB in a test account.
Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
#15You can also just use GSuite with a few users to get unlimited Google Drive storage. https://support.google.com/a/answer/139019?hl=en#6_storage
That references "for education", but it's also true for GSuite Business (and enterprise, but not basic). You'll need to be paying for at least 5 users, or $60/month.
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Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
#17I had an (evil; don't do this) idea a while back to create a Dropbox-like program that stores all your data as binary chunks attached to draft emails spread across an arbitrary number of free email accounts.
This existed just after gmail launched. Can't recall the name of the program, but I played around with it to store a few hundred MB in a test account.
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#18Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
#19In the same spirit, I made a few "just for fun" plugins for my (now abandoned) encrypted-arbitrary-storage Dropbox-like application Syncany:
The Flickr plugin [1] stores data (deduped and encrypted before upload) as PNG images. This was great because Flickr gave you 1 TB of free image storage. This was actually super cool, because the overhead was really small. No base64.
The SMTP/POP plugin [2] was even nastier. It used SMTP and POP3 to store data in a mailbox. Same for [3], but that used IMAP.
The Picasa plugin [4] encoded data as BMP images. Similar to Flickr, but different image format. No overhead here either.
All of this was strictly for fun of course, but hey it worked.
[1] https://github.com/syncany/syncany-plugin-flickr
[2] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~binwiederhier/syncany/trunk/fil...
[3] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~binwiederhier/syncany/trunk/fil...
[4] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~binwiederhier/syncany/trunk/fil...
Re: Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64
#20Thinking outside the box.