Send: Share Files Safely with This Open-Source Successor Of Firefox Send(Firefox Send Fork)
Send: Share Files Safely with This Open-Source Successor Of Firefox Send(Firefox Send Fork)
In today’s digital world, data privacy is paramount. While cloud services like Google Drive or Dropbox provide easy file sharing, they may not always align ...
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But it's the server that creates the URL in the first place, so it must knows it, right? ...or wrong?
@peregus No that would be created by javascript in the sender's browser.
Oh, ok, now I get it. So it could be checked by a third party if that code is really created by the browser and if it's not sent to the server, correct?
@peregus yes, that would be here: https://github.com/timvisee/send/blob/master/app/fileSender.js#L81
@[email protected] but the owner of the server could change it, could it be checked directly on the webpage of the service? Not that I will do it (I can't, I can't read that code), I'm just curious.
@peregus yes, well the javascript on the site is minified, but I found this place even in the minified code. At this level it would be easier to take the source code and compile your own, host your own instance, then you know exactly what code is running there. And their minified code could be directly compared with your minified code... the beauty of open-source software.
@[email protected] Thanks a lot for your time explaining that to me!
@peregus You're welcome, stay curious!