The Liberty Lamp: Libertarian News & Editorials

I was just taking a look at the daily updates on Shell City a few minutes ago when I came across this funky little command-line program called TinyDisk. This cool little program takes advantage of the TinyURL.com database to store and retrieve hidden data. By utilizing a few tricks and some 128-bit AES data encryption, one can store small ammounts of data of whatever format you want. It's not just limited to plain-text URIs- you can theoretically upload images, audio, or whatever other kind of file you want to privately share.

Because of it's randomness and encryption capabilities, a file uploaded to the TinyURL (or remote NanoURL) database, you need a special 'meta file' in order to let your computer know what data to retrieve from the DB and recombine into an original file format. When uploading, a file of this type (*.tdf) is automatically generated; if someone else did it, you'll need a copy of their TDF meta file in order to bring order to the chaos, as it were.

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