{"id":9028,"date":"2017-08-31T07:45:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/news-2801\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T07:45:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T15:45:41","slug":"news-2801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/news-2801\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Making the FCC Host &#8216;Rick and Morty&#8217; GIFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:33:19 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> If you didn&#8217;t know any better, it might really seem like the US Federal Communications Commision is absolutely losing it. <\/p>\n<p> First, an official-looking document calling FCC chairman Ajit Pai a &#8220;cuck&#8221; made the rounds online, made even more convincing since it was hosted on the FCC&#8217;s own servers. Gizmodo <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/no-the-fcc-did-not-post-a-statement-trashing-ajit-pai-1798652644\" target=\"_blank\">saw it and noted<\/a> that it seemed to be hosted on the FCC&#8217;s net neutrality comments database, which is setup to allow anyone to upload their comments on the topic. <\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 550px;\" data-iframely-id=\"Ah2x1Qh\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 100%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> As for what&#8217;s going on here, Hacker Noon&#8217;s Guise Bule <a href=\"https:\/\/hackernoon.com\/the-fcc-gov-website-lets-you-upload-documents-and-host-them-there-bdcd5c1a5b8b\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in a Medium post<\/a> that the FCC&#8217;s comment-filing system lets pretty much anybody with a little bit of know-how to upload anything they want. According to Bule, folks have managed to upload GIFs and even .exe files up to 25 megabytes in size. <\/p>\n<p> That fake memo alone would have been weird enough, but right now folks on Twitter are posting FCC-hosted media that contains everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/ecfsapi.fcc.gov\/file\/DOC-578d7973f3400000-X.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">goat memes<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Viss\/status\/903067802491174913\" target=\"_blank\">Rick and Morty GIFs<\/a>. Basically, people are treating the FCC like their own personal cloud storage. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__media\"><picture class=\"article__image\"><source media=\"(max-width: 25em)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1504193428286-DOC-578d7973f3400000-X.jpeg?resize=400:*, https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1504193428286-DOC-578d7973f3400000-X.jpeg?resize=600:* 2x\"><source media=\"(min-width: 25em)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1504193428286-DOC-578d7973f3400000-X.jpeg?resize=540:*\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/_uncategorized\/1504193428286-DOC-578d7973f3400000-X.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/picture>\n<div class=\"article__image-caption\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> This oversight could allow someone to upload malware to the FCC&#8217;s servers, Bule wrote, but it could just as easily (and perhaps more likely) be used for things like uploading a GIF that contains an <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/8xxmqz\/meet-the-artistic-genius-who-turned-a-whole-spongebob-episode-into-a-gif\">entire Spongebob Squarepants episode<\/a> to government servers. <\/p>\n<p> The FCC did not respond to Motherboard&#8217;s request for comment by publication time, but we will update if we hear back. <\/p>\n<p><b> <i> Get six of our favorite Motherboard stories every day <\/i><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.club\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b> <i> by signing up for our newsletter.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/8xx7q3\/people-are-making-the-fcc-host-rick-and-morty-gifs\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59a82b2a1d410715b5227b33\/lede\/1504193480741-Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-112810-AM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:33:19 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is going on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[13655,14312,11663,1582,14270,14310,14296,32,14311,1705],"class_list":["post-9028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-ajit-pai","tag-anything","tag-api","tag-comments","tag-gif","tag-host","tag-net-neutrality","tag-news","tag-rick-and-morty","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}