apologies if this is a stupid question, but does Flickr not compress images? if so what would this do to the file?

digitalgravy

this will not end well.

ultrasur1

We do this with ebooks on 4chan.

shamess

Neat trick for distribution in the event Flickr doesn't start analyzing hex values to notice the obvious hex file signature.

UnStatusTheQuo

It's probably not the best idea to do this with content that you don't have the rights to...

earth2marsh

@digitalgravy: You can always download the Original version of your image from Flickr.

Amit Agarwal

Or you could just use RapidShare or any one of the free hosts.

Problem solved.

William Hook

forgive me...but doesn't this pose security questions?

tedyc03

Years ago, before Y2K, I read about the F.B.I. monitoring the images in eBay. Seems that a sizable portion of the images at the time carried encrypted messages. It was thought to be a communication portal for spies, hackers, and the like. I wouldn't be worried about the copyright issue as much as having governments getting the wrong idea about you and your IP address.

quail

^ captain obvious ;)

lordargent

This is an excellent method to hide malware inside. Not that it has not been used in the past. Now all users should change the default file extension of their AV product to scan .jpg, .tiff etc.

Sad to see this happen.

NJTrout

njtrout

The only thing I hide in my photos are pictures of a giraffe, or a sail boat, or a monkey. Of course thats with all the little dots and you gotta stare at it for about 30 mins before you can see it. But thats part of the encryption method. And most importantly, it foils foreign government deciphering (unless they got more than 30 mins)

Lazarus

Thus more proof that Flickr is becoming the junkyard of photo sites.

OX4

@njtrout: There's nothing new to this.

If someone can get you to change a filename and extract unknown files, they could have gotten you with a regular old fashioned virus anyway.

Busybyeski

I hope your virus scanner already pics up image files... jpg has been exploited before ;)

decider

thanks a lot for posting this to the world! now they'll implement something to keep people from doing it.. _________________________________________________________________ Instantly invite friends from Facebook and other social networks to join you on Windows Live™ Messenger. https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_InviteFriends

DarleneKaplaa

@DarleneKaplaa:
How much are you getting paid to throw that ad in your post? ;-P

But yeah, this has been done before, though it's interesting nonetheless.

Blah8

This is pretty low tech stuff. I would like to see a program that packs data into the least significant bits of the quantized coefficients (effectively de-quantizing them to a degree). Now that would be sneaky, and much harder to detect automatically.

nighttimestereo

- Gosh, mister, that JPG file ya posted is 6 megabytes! It should be way smaller than that. I oughta be able to fix that for ya. You want I should take a look?
- Go 'way kid, ya bother me...

RevWaldo

@decider: i like your use of "pics" ;)

orky56

Um, you can also put RARs and, therefore, just about anything you want.

Alucard

Wow, does anyone else see this as a way to "Rick roll" someone?

digiq1