Hide torrent files into images with Hid.im
by Uzair Sajid on July 16, 2009, under Hacks and Tips, Reviews, Web Apps
Not a long time ago, I created an application project in my image processing code, that hid data and other images inside an image. Something not very unique, in fact anyone with some image processing knowledge can do that.
Anyways Hid.im is a unique service. It converts .TORRENT files into PNG images for you to sneak around anywhere. The files wont be detected by a search engine or anyone else for that matter.
You can upload a Torrent file (less than 250kb) on hid.im or make use of their Firefox extension. Decoding is equally straight forward with the help of this bookmarklet which works on Firefox 3+ and Safari 4. Just give it a shot. The image above is actually a torrent from Office 2010 Beta.
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Nice post, but I believe Google keeps its eyes open. It is soon going to detect all the links made to images of hid.im and consider that a violation too. Trust me I’ve been tortured by Google much (and still being tortured).
Thanks for sharing though.
Hid.im doesn’t keep images on its server. In fact you have to save the file on your own server or computer, so Google would have no way of knowing where the file came from.