Game Files stored as Portable Network Graphics

[SUCCESSOR]

Was discussing it in the chatroom and apparently you can hide RAR files beneath a JPEG (or any other file type, probably). I thought I'd heard of this somewhere!


Sorry, brain mush syndrome is a common affliction of college students.

Are you talking about simply combining files? This is an old trick people have used for ages to get around file type limitations. Like members of 4chan would combine zip files with jpegs and upload them. All you had to do was open it with an zip program to access the files or change the extension from jpg to zip. I am pretty sure 4chan has blocked this and I imagine a lot of social media sites have too.

I remember hearing about someone combining a certain type of illegal photos to mp3s of popular songs and sharing them on p2p networks so thousands of others were hosting his illicit porn stash for him.

[CJC]

Well I was actually picturing something more along the lines of a barcode: a specifically formatted image that represents a series of bits and can be converted into a quest file. When I mentioned such in chat, the file combination was suggested as an alternative and the discussion veered in that direction. I thought I'd mention it here so that the same veer would not occur, and to explain that something close to my idea already exists.

Still, it's actually much less exciting a prospect than I initially imagined.