name

ca-harvester.sh

features

• creates a random CloudApp short URL (http://cl.ly/xxxx)
• checks that URL, if it finds content it downloads it
• renames the file, preserving the url suffix in the filename
• limits overall size of download in MB (default 100MB)

usage

chmod +x ca-havester.sh
./ca-harvester.sh 

• when complete, view contents in the files/ directory
• (optional) edit ca-harvester.sh and modify SIZE_LIMIT

disclosure

I disclosed this vulnerability to the company that runs this service on Thursday, 1 Dec 2011 at 23:09:20 -0600 The code was released Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 20:09:15 -0600

inspiration

@dcurtis http://cargo.dustincurtis.com.s3.amazonaws.com/cloudapp-roulette.html CloudApp banned that webapp, but did nothing more for users' privacy. The goal of this project was to prove that.

license

this is open source software released under the Simplified BSD License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php)

ran_quote

there were more but now drops

contact

phil at philcryer dot com