What looks like random video noise could actually be a backup of someone's tax documents. Unfortunately, it's not very efficient.
) that takes a single zip file containing other assorted files and converts it into a video with the data stream completely visualized across frames—but to human eyes,
it looks like nothing but monochromatic noise. You can see a sample file uploaded to YouTube below, but those sensitive to flashing lights might not want to hit the play button.When the uploaded data needs to be retrieved, the video file can be downloaded from YouTube again and decoded. It sounds simple, but there were quite a few challenges to make this happen, including the lingering question of whether or not this violates YouTube’s terms of service.
The downside to the overly-cautious error-proofing is that the file sizes of the videos produced are often four times larger than the original zip file containing the data. So if you’ve got a 1 GB zip, you’ll have to upload as much as 4 GB to YouTube. That could take a sizeable bite out of your internet bandwidth if you’re not lucky enough to have an unlimited data cap.
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