What is the unexpected identity of a mysterious cryptographic movie that has been uploaded to YouTube by more than 70,000 books?



Tom Cruise is also starring famous movie series "Mission ImpossibleAt the end of the command tape sent from the authorities to the spy, the scenario where the message "This tape will automatically disappear" will flow and smoke will emerge. I knew that a movie that makes such a spy movie sounds like a present on YouTube, got a topic and at last it became clear that its identity was revealed, but what was the end in the end?

The truth behind one YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos | Technology | theguardian.com
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/may/01/truth-youtube-mysterious-videos-webdriver-torso

Mysterious accountWebdriver TorsoHere is an example of a movie being uploaded. It is an eerie content that only the strange melody caused by the randomly displayed figure and the test signal sound "pe" is played.

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It is a movie that gives ridiculous doubt and a certain kind of fear, but if you look at the list of movies uploaded to the "Webdriver Torso" channel, you will see more amazing content .

Webdriver Torso - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLiV4WJfkTEHH0b9PmRklw/videos


Although the mineral thumbnail slurps unexpectedly to the screen lined with the slurry, I understand that this account accounts for more than 77,000 similar movies uploaded. Why on earth is this movie open to anyone for?


◆ People on the net to clarify the mystery
The opinion given to the net includes "something like a game of a new genre" or "Viral marketingIs not it sort of a kind of? ", And of course it is like" This is part of a spy activity ". British BBC radio program "Today"Official Twitter also introduced voices saying" aliens are attacking "and" it is a method of advertising campaign ".

Also,Boing BoingIn the column of the user "This is an unknown person sending orders to operators sent to the worldRandom number broadcastingIs not it sort of a kind of opinion "has been received. This is still a method that some countries are actually using and applies to the decipherment table of the operators even if the contents of the broadcast whose meaning is unknown simply by looking at them at first glance It will be able to read the hidden contents.

BBC siteBut searching for identities was unfolded.


Indeed, in the situation that "the mystery calls a mystery", searching for identity will show the appearance of overheating.Daily DotAnd Guardian tried contacting YouTube account holders, but both failed. However, Daily Dot's O'Connor reporter finds some clues. Perform function test of web applicationSeleniumI discovered that there is a thing called "WebDriver" in the tool's function.

O'Connor reporters began further investigations and conducted listening to companies developing Selenium. However, from the person in charge we will receive a response saying "This has nothing to do with our products", and furthermore, "This movie seems as if you are calling out to an alien" I got a comment back to playing.

◆ And the identity turned out
But the time has come for the truth to be revealed at last. And it will be discovered that the content was trivial.

Isaul Burgas, a software tester living in New York, remembered something very similar to this movie. It was a conference on software automation that I saw about it, and it is a device for delivering TV programs via the InternetSet top box"It seems that it was incredible to the content that the European software development company had been presenting for the purpose.

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When delivering a program via the net, it normally encodes video and audio, and delivers it with the data divided into small pieces. Therefore, on the receiving side, it is necessary to gather the finely divided data together into one piece of data, but it seems that this movie was exactly what it used for its verification, Says, "Given the high volume that is being uploaded to YouTube channel and the fact that it is uploaded on YouTube, this is probably due to the fact that some major companies are using their video encoding software and video on YouTube I think that it is intended to verify the compression specifications. "

Actually, the mysterious mysterious massive movie was actually a riot which was discovered that test data for quality evaluation that one company was creating for internal use was leaked to the outside. Sometimes I feel that "the mystery was wanted to remain a mystery" ... sometimes.

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