Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data
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A trick to break the walls of hidden partitions.
  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I’ll stick to a Veracrypt full disk encryption with a hidden partition. All the benefits of a duress password, none of the data deletion that gets you V&

      • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        18 days ago

        They don’t recommend against it… It’s a detailed guideline on doing it successfully.

        • digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          17 days ago

          A VeraCrypt volume resides on a device/filesystem that utilizes a wear-leveling mechanism (e.g. a flash-memory SSD or USB flash drive). A copy of (a fragment of) the VeraCrypt volume may remain on the device. Therefore, do not store hidden volumes on such devices/filesystems.

          I understand that page is a bit dense, so I’m quoting the relevant text from the above source.

          • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            16 days ago

            They make a very poor job of highlighting something so important in a dense page detailing how to do what they recommend you don’t.