64 max!: a sad story
21/10/2026
64 max! has been up since April 2021. It was seldom used but often appreciated.
Until recently…
Monitoring my servers, as one might expect from me, I noticed a huge increase in its usage: the home page was hit several hundred times a day, every day.
As the FAQ says, I have (almost) no means of knowing what use is made of it. The trick is that anyone can claim a folder, upload a file to it, and tell the addressee to download the file and delete it. To be honest, it seems that no files were exchanged that way.
But I had set up an anti-flood system. The result was an operational DoS for genuine users. So I set up a ward against that DoS, so that genuine users still had a chance to get a free share space. But the bots kept on hammering 64.nun.tf.
Meanwhile came that news item about a failed AI bot test, where rogue bots used the 256 characters of file names on a shared service as a relay to talk to each other. That pointed to 64 max! as a possible tray for malicious activity. What could have been done with 4 GB of files?
That closed the case: 64 max! now runs behind a whitelist.
Now it's damn calm.
Unwhitelisted visitors get a link to the contact page. No one asks.
It's a sad story, in a way. Generosity is seldom well rewarded—nor is it meant to be.