I have read the ideo of this once here and now that I have time, I want to try to do this.
Basically, your file's data is transferred into video format so that you can upload your data to a video hoster. The resulting video will look kind of like pic related but probably with more color to achieve a smaller video file. I was looking for something like this on the internet, however I havent found anything: neither an article nor a program about converting data to video. So, does anyone of you know how to do this? I could probably program something like this but if some of you already know something like this I wouldnt
That makes it harder but not impossible. The real question is: How will youtube react? How much bullshit can you upload before they terminate your account?
If you play your cards right you could maybe even get a popular channel out of it. People have made popular channels for dumber things before, a channel dedicated to just random clips of noise might catch on based on its “novelty” alone.
Btw, another thing you could do is try and upload backups as make-believe “insurance files” on wikileaks etc.
Bentley Jackson
Use github
Benjamin Perry
Can't you just have a bunch of private videos?
Landon Powell
this. cool idea to use youtube but seems not practical.
Evan Mitchell
Nobody's gonna do shit about it. They won't terminate your account but since it's owned by an American company they are allowed to ask you to decrypt your files because FBI doesn't like encryption. Although you can leave it raw (unencrypted) but that's a really stupid way to backup files unless they're not important to you. You can still do what said.
Adam Torres
wasn't this supposed to be FREE
Daniel Wilson
How would youtube know the files are encrypted?
Eli James
They wouldn't instantly detect it, but videos like that are always analysed. With all the terrorist bullshit and NSA spying around the Internet I'd be surprised if they ignored a random abstract video like that.
Lucas Mitchell
Even better OP, use steganographic techniques to embed the bits of your file into actual video files.
Just record yourself making uninformed opinions about things you have no clue about and upload it to youtube, then hide your backup inside the video in a way that can't easily be detected or distinguished from random atmospheric noise.
This solves , and might even get you some subscribers along the way. (Uninformed opinions are basically the way to get popular on youtube)
Anthony Murphy
Good luck talking for 200 hours just to save 1GB of data. OP might have better luck with 10 hour music remixes with a dynamic background that doesn't make it too obvious that it contains data.
Jackson Long
really fucking dumb idea considering how compression works and the amount of compression youtube applies to videos.
Levi Watson
Why not just use the snowden hash to create more hashes with that as the key. Im sure theres a good reason for that hash. Im sure that he is good with encryption. Im almost certain there is always a purpose. anyway this sounds like snuff video stuff. im out of here.
great show you guys.
Dylan Kelly
helllllooooooo...? what about the aesthetic time?
Camden Nguyen
you just need lots of error correction. also if you're clever enough you can store data losslessly by formatting it correctly (assuming the compression is deterministic.)
Blake Adams
You're painfully out of touch with reality if you think your data bullshit is going to be a popular YouTube channel. This is like the day dream of a drunk middle aged woman whos tried unsuccessfully to fucked her boss the last 4 years.
Sebastian Perry
They actually keep the source video. That's why when they switched to 60FPS, already existing 60FPS ones were... well, 60FPS. But only YouTube and the account owner can reach it (Video Manager -> Video -> Source File (not sure about terms as I use it in Turkroachish))
Dylan Long
Sink threads all over again.
I'd love to see a lawless user upload a bunch of hardcore gay porn shit and get popular only for normies to find our once it's popular.
Ayden Wood
Fairly sure youtube's compression is deterministic. It applies various different filters, and the type of filters it applies depends on the type of content (determined by e.g. your type of channel)
For example “gaming” channels (and videos uploaded through the youtube “gaming” interface) use far less aggressive noise removal than regular videos because it fucks with games.
It's always possible in principle, you just have to be smart about it. Ideally, you want to make a change that will make the most efficient possible adjustments to the final coded file, which for current video codecs is probably going to mean modulating the frequency of video, rather than adding static noise.
Andrew Howard
Name it "Abstract Art" They won't ever notice
Cameron Reyes
what's the point? use dropbox like a sane person
Matthew Kelly
>what's the point? the point is you don't give money to anyone.
James Lee
Properly encrypted archives are indistinguishable from random noise. They aint detecting shit.
Leo Russell
I was around for a while when something like this popped up, its not practical. its entirely possible to store data in pictures, a white pixel is a 1 and a black is a 0 or whatever, and you can string many of those pixels in a picture to store data, and if you need more space you can store it in a video. The problem comes when you try to upload that video to say youtube, it uses a video compressor that will, when presented with a scene that doesnt have repetitive patterns ( youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI ) it will just lower the quality of the video. Now because stringing 1's and 0's together in a video is gonna look like noise,, the very concept of a scene with no patterns, youtubes gonna compress it, which makes the decoding of bits nearly impossible. Now a good way around this is by making bits really big, so instead of a 1 pixel per bit, you have say 4 pixels per bit, the obvious problem is that now per every frame you only have 1/4 the data (or something like that, point is you have way less data per video frame) its also apparent that a 1 hour video with data thats mostly noise is most likely going to be a bit bigger than the data itsself, and if youtube compresses the video to much, some or all of that data is gonna be fucked, especially if you use compressed data( say a .zip/.7z file ), which is very sensitive to errors. if you really want to store data on googles servers that bad, just upload it to google drive. because unless you need a """"sekret"""" storage medium, you're just wasting your time. thats not to mention that with youtube, you have to deal with shit like making a gmail and verifying it to upload videos that are longer than 15 minutes, and so now your '''sekret''' service can be logged and traced back to you
Youtube uses fixed bitrates, which gives you a hard upper bound on the amount of data you could squeeze into a video of 10 minute length.
But I think that with a properly designed encoding scheme, you could approach using at least half of that bitrate as actually useful data easily, and more if you try hard enough.