A fast and easy file sharing application. Upload a file and it generates a unique link (even for duplicates). Send the link to someone and they can download the file with it. You can set a password on the site to control who can use it. Links can be set to self-destruct. No database required, just PHP. Encryption optional. Cronjob to delete old files. Comes with a PoC bash script for uploading from the command line.
This package provides a library and a command-line tool named wormhole, which makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another. The two endpoints are identified by using identical “wormhole codes”: in general, the sending machine generates and displays the code, which must then be typed into the receiving machine.
The codes are short and human-pronounceable, using a phonetically-distinct wordlist. The receiving side offers tab-completion on the codewords, so usually only a few characters must be typed. Wormhole codes are single-use and do not need to be memorized.
Can also be used as a module called from other code.
XEP-0363 CLI upload tool. Written in Python, uses SleekXMPP. Give it login credentials to an XMPP server and a filename, and it'll upload the file to the server.
LastPass users can add documents, PDF files, and images as attachments to Secure Notes . If there are files that you want to keep that shouldn’t be stored unencrypted on your machine or that need to be portable, then LastPass is the place to back them up.
First page of an explanation of building your own cloud infrastructure.
A fire-and-forget file sharing webapp optimized for access from the command line. Use wget or curl to upload and download files. Share with a unique URL. Files can be up to 10 gigs in size, will persist for 14 days.
Github repo: https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh/
Application for transferring files to mobile devices. Throws up a QRcode in a terminal and spawns a web server. Scan the code, download the file.
textfiles.com now offers the contents of entire BBS file and shareware CD-ROMs for download. Some of these are quite famous.
An open source utility for Windows (32 and 64 bit) that will securely erase files and directories on a Windows machine, in addition to scrubbing free space and OS-related temporary files that could leak information. It can even wipe an entire system if you need it.
A free utility which extracts text from damaged Microsoft Word files, which can then be saved into a new file.
A command-line based data recovery utility for Linux's EXT2/3 filesystems. Can recover all of a user's deleted files, deleted files based on type (.mp3, .jpg, etc), can even recover dropped MySQL database tables.
A command line utility written in Python that extracts information from .torrent files. It can tell you what the name of the torrent is, what files are included and information about them, where it was created, and other related pieces of information.
An excellent article from the Internet Storm Center about carving executables out of other sorts of files (like .rtf documents) for the purposes of identification and reverse engineering.
A large and diverse collection of documents in .pdf format, courtesy of textfiles.com.
How to recover files that have accidentally been deleted with 'svn delete'.
To recover a file from svn that you deleted from your local repository, it’s first necessary to get the proper name of the file, and the revision of the repository it last existed in. To do that (assuming you don’t know, because if you do you have bigger issues), you go to the directory it was in (or as close as you can get to the directory it was in) and run:
svn log --verbose
You should be able to find the file you’re looking for and the revision you need in the output of that command. Assuming your file’s name is ‘file.txt’ and it was in revision 250, you run the following to recover it:svn up -r 250 file.txt
Done.
A blog about tools for stripping DRM out of files. Review of, news about, and releases of software for accomplishing this task.
A fan-curated wiki cataloging cases originally shown on Unsolved Mysteries, a television show that started in the late 1980's and ran in various forms until very recently.