Using YouTube For File Storage

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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Ever thought it might be a good idea?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ever thought it might be a good idea to store encrypted data in a QRCode video?

Not even a little bit. Now that you mention it though, it does sound like possibly one of the dumber ideas I've heard in quite some time.

Re:Ever thought it might be a good idea?

[ememisya]

Ever thought it might be a good idea to store encrypted data in a QRCode video?

Not even a little bit. Now that you mention it though, it does sound like possibly one of the dumber ideas I've heard in quite some time.

So considering a scenario like a student posting Iron Man 3, camera rip and the encryption key as another video onto YouTube, and the links in another forum. Who would be responsible for this copyright infringement? YouTube for having encrypted video data? It could be argued that YouTube is only carrying gibberish video data. The forum? The forum is only containing links to YouTube which is perfectly free to do. Could it be the software for putting the key and the data together? I wouldn't think so, because then any encryption library is responsible for its resulting data. It could be argued that it wouldn't be illegal until the user started writing the actual video onto his/her harddrive, at which point there will be no internet connection to detect anything unusual. Now, I'm a person who believes copying something and taking that copy is different than taking that thing itself, but I know how copyright laws are touchy about these scenarios :) My guess is they would put the pressure on YouTube to detect videos with too many QRCodes in their frames and remove them and it will soon be in their Terms of Service. If enough people abused this method anyways, writing a browser plugin to detect YouTube and offer file uploading options will fire this away to the spiral of doom, sort of like FireSheep and facebook https.

Lolzers.

[RightSaidFred99]

I'm sure Youtube will _never_ notice this and your foolproof plan will be good for all time.

You might be OK with some steganography, but otherwise they will thwart you if more than a few people do this.

Re:Wow... worse than old usenet binaries.

[i_ate_god]

what ever happened to the hacker mentality these days?

they would do it, BECAUSE THEY CAN. A reason so valid that it I shouldn't have to be here telling you about it.