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Re: X0.at: upload files from cURL

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These are always nice little sites to have around, but they can't really grow much in popularity before users start abusing them to distribute illegal things at which point the site has to start doing more and more content moderation or be shut down.

Sad but true. One reason why easy self hosting is important for these types of projects.

Re: X0.at: upload files from cURL

#14
Uploading files without auth layer - is asking for trouble IMHO. Change without audit trail will encourage wrong doers. But I get the idea, this is an example for a file upload in a simple way using Curl or other tools.

Re: X0.at: upload files from cURL

#16

Uploading files without auth layer - is asking for trouble IMHO. Change without audit trail will encourage wrong doers. But I get the idea, this is an example for a file upload in a simple way using Curl or other tools.

The website is already blocked because of "Malicious Sources/Malnets" in the firewall of the company I work at.

Re: X0.at: upload files from cURL

#17
post #2

These are always nice little sites to have around, but they can't really grow much in popularity before users start abusing them to distribute illegal things at which point the site has to start doing more and more content moderation or be shut down.

Can confirm. I had a public demo of my open source image hosting solution [1] (where you can resize images and videos by just entering a different URL) up for years without problems, until idiots started uploading CSAM (Children sexual abuse material).

Luckily I found out before law enforcement did [2] so I proactively talked to my federal bureau for months generating Excel sheets of IPs and access times and devices and countries. I didn't see many of the images myself, basically just looked at one upload per IP which was like three in total and forwarded all uploads of that IP to the police but man.. what the hell is wrong with people. 4 digit number of uploads of CSAM.

[1] https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/pictshare [2] https://blog.haschek.at/2018/fight-child-pornography-with-ra...

Re: X0.at: upload files from cURL

#20
post #4

Alternatively https://transfer.sh/

Link is dead for me.

Which one? https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/transfer.sh says it's up and fine for me. If you're curling don't include the last character that the URL has in response. That's effectively a carriage return/end of data
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