So you can query a file that I uploaded, and you can see that is uploaded successfully and saved. That information does not require the user to be logged in.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Nicholas Lemonias. < lem.niko...@googlemail.com> wrote: > My claim is now verified.... > > Cheers! > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Nicholas Lemonias. < > lem.niko...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> http://upload.youtube.com/?authuser=0&upload_id= >> AEnB2UqVZlaog3GremriQEGDoUK3cdGGPu9MVIfyObgYajjo6i1-- >> uQicn6jhbwsdNrqSF4ApbUbhCcwzdwe4xf_XTbL_t5-aw&origin= >> CiNodHRwOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUuY29tL3VwbG9hZC9ydXBpbxINdmlkZW8tdXBsb2Fkcw >> >> That information can be queried from the db, where the metadata are >> saved. The files are being saved persistently , as per the above example. >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Nicholas Lemonias. < >> lem.niko...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> http://upload.youtube.com/?authuser=0&upload_id=AEnB2UqVZlaog3GremriQEGDoUK3cdGGPu9MVIfyObgYajjo6i1--uQicn6jhbwsdNrqSF4ApbUbhCcwzdwe4xf_XTbL_t5-aw&origin=CiNodHRwOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUuY29tL3VwbG9hZC9ydXBpbxINdmlkZW8tdXBsb2Fkcw >>> >>> That information can be queried from the db, where the metadata are >>> saved. The files are being saved persistently , as per the above example. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Chris Thompson <christhom7...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Nikolas, >>>> >>>> Please do read (and understand) my entire email before responding - I >>>> understand your frustration trying to get your message across but maybe >>>> this will help. >>>> >>>> Please put aside professional pride for the time being - I know how it >>>> feels to be passionate about something yet have others simply not >>>> understand. >>>> >>>> Let me try and bring some sanity to the discussion and explain to you >>>> why people maybe not agreeing with you. >>>> >>>> You (rightly so) highlighted what you believe to be an issue in a >>>> Youtube whereby it appears (to you) than you can upload an arbitrary file. >>>> If you can indeed do this as you suspect then your points are valid and you >>>> "may" be able to cause various issues associated with it such as DOS etc - >>>> especially if the uploaded files cannot or are not tracked. >>>> >>>> However... >>>> >>>> Consider than you are talking to an API and what you are getting back >>>> (the JSON response) in your example is simply a response from the API to >>>> say the file you uploaded has been received and saved. >>>> >>>> Now, as you no doubt know, when you upload a regular movie to YouTube, >>>> once uploaded it goes away and does some post-processing, converting it to >>>> flash for example. What's to say that there isn't some verification aspect >>>> to this post-processing that checks if the file is intact a valid movie and >>>> if not removes it. >>>> >>>> If you could for example demonstrate that the file was indeed >>>> persistent, by being able to retrieve it for example then again, you would >>>> have solid ground to claim an issue however your claims at this point are >>>> based on an assumption.... Let me explain. >>>> >>>> 1. You have demonstrated than you can send "any" file to an API and the >>>> API returned an acknowledgment of receiving (and saving) the file. >>>> >>>> 2. You / we don't know what Google do with files once they have been >>>> received from the API - maybe they process them and validate them - we >>>> simply don't know. >>>> >>>> 3. You have hypothesized that you can retrieve the file by manipulating >>>> tokens etc and you may be right, but you have not demonstrated it as such. >>>> >>>> Because of this, you seem to have made a CLAIM that you can upload >>>> arbitrary files to Google however SHOWN that you can simply send files to >>>> an API and an API responds in a certain way. >>>> >>>> I am NOT saying you haven't found an issue, what I am saying is that >>>> you need to demonstrate that the issue is real and thus can be abused. If >>>> the Google service simply verifies all uploaded files once they are >>>> uploaded and discards them if invalid, then you haven't really found >>>> anything. >>>> >>>> If you were to prove that you were able to retrieve this uploaded file >>>> then how could anyone dispute your bug. >>>> >>>> Hope this helps.... >>>> >>>> Cheers! >>>> >>> >>> >> >
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