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
www.tomshardware.com
A trick to break the walls of hidden partitions.
  • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 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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      9 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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        8 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.