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Using YouTube For File Storage

Posted by timothy on from the subtitles-are-a-bitch dept.

First time accepted submitter ememisya writes "Ever thought it might be a good idea to store encrypted data in a QRCode video? Using this technique one could easily store 10GB of data to be available anywhere in the world, and completely free."

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  1. I already have a better solution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I store mine in the Linux source code comments. Nobody has ever noticed.

  2. Re:Wow... worse than old usenet binaries. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you Captain Kirk? This reminds me of the only good reason to climb a mountain.

  3. I found a QSR code burned into my toast by AndyKron · · Score: 5, Funny

    I found a QSR code burned into my toast. My cellphone read it, and it said "Jesus"

  4. Re:Wow... worse than old usenet binaries. by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you Captain Kirk? This reminds me of the only good reason to climb a mountain.

    After your first sentence, I thought that was his remark on the subject of why bang genetically or even anatomically incompatible aliens.

    --
    Ezekiel 23:20
  5. Re:Ever thought it might be a good idea? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone finally finds a use for QR codes, pairs it with social media and cloud based storage...and all you can do is pooh pooh the idea.

    I'm writing an iphone app to do this as we speak. This is going to be huge! Where the venture capitalists at? Holla!

  6. Re:Ever thought it might be a good idea? by vux984 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Same thing if you uploaded a video containing only white noise as the picture: it's there just to waste Google's hard drive space.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf7NbRFyg3Y

    Good times.