用 Google Docs 惡搞的方式...

看到「UDS : Unlimited Drive Storage」這個專案,利用 Google Docs 存放資料。主要的原因是因為 Google Docs 不計入 Google Drive 所使用的空間:

Google Docs take up 0 bytes of quota in your Google Drive

用這個方法可以存放不少大檔案 (像是各種 ISO image),讓人想起當年 Love Machine 的玩法 (不知道的人可以參考「愛的機器 Love machine」這篇),切割檔案後傳到某些空間以提供下載?只是這邊是用 base64 放到 Google Docs 上...

base64 的資料會比原始資料大 33%,而 Google Docs 單篇的上限大約是 710KB:

Size of the encoded file is always larger than the original. Base64 encodes binary data to a ratio of about 4:3.

A single google doc can store about a million characters. This is around 710KB of base64 encoded data.

方法不是太新鮮,但是讓人頗懷念的... XD

Love your country, but never trust its government

Hacker News Daily 上看到的,在 Sun-2 的 bootloader 裡可以看到「Love your country, but never trust its government」這樣的字串:「Why the Sun 2 has the message "Love your country, but never trust its government"」。

這段字串是由 John Gilmore 當時在 Sun 開發時所放入的,John Gilmore 同時也是後來 EFF 創辦人之一,不過當初放入這段字串的目的是為了抓到盜版:

Yes. Vinod Khosla, first President of Sun, came to me at one point and said to put something hidden, triggered in an unexpected way, into the ROM Monitor, so that if somebody cloned the Sun Workstation (violating our software’s copyright), we could do that unexpected thing to the competitor’s demo workstation at a trade show and thereby prove that they had cloned it.

過了三十年後 John Gilmore 被挖出來問的回應也是蠻有趣的... (可以參考原文附上的信件)

而這句話現在回頭看也很經典,尤其是最近各國政府想要在 crypto system 裡面放後門的各種反應。