Of hosting files in url minifiers by Paul Masurel.
From the post:
Today I had an epiphany while staring at a very long url. I thought: “Url minifiers are really nice to store all of this data for free”. And then it stroke me… One can really store 4KB of arbitrary data with a url minifier system and share it for free.
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Now there’s a clever thought!
Apologies for missing this when it first appeared. I can imagine several interesting uses for this insight.
Such as the passing of operational orders via a url minifier system.
Tasking the intelligence community to discover and inspect every shortened url, everyday.
I saw < 4k operational orders because the more advanced the technique, the greater the technical overhead. The base 4k is trivial.
For example, https://bit.ly/2wHB3zH, which gives a 404, but also the text:
http://www.nowhere.com/Today-is-the-day-we-smite-our-oppressors-at-the-usual-location
All I needed was a public url minifier.
Please share this post with anyone who has a need to pass < 4k operational orders or information.
Be sure to credit Paul Masurel with this discovery. Me, I find interesting use cases and applications of technology.