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My childhood friend reached out about wanting to hide her music collection. This completely nerd sniped me. What I did was create a FAT-like FS in complete reve
by zamalek 4y ago
My childhood friend reached out about wanting to hide her music collection. This completely nerd sniped me. What I did was create a FAT-like FS in complete reverse (starting at the end of the disk). AES-CTR was used to encrypt it (hurrah plausible deniability), so it would merely look like random empty space. The idea was then to drop some decoy files on the drive, defrag+compact, and then use the free space for the music collection.
She decided against crossing the border with the music collection, and so it was never used. Still a fun steganography project.
- unstatusthequo 4y agoWhat border crossing is this so I make sure to never visit?
- zamalek 4y agoNew Zealand if I'm remembering correctly.
- user- 4y agoWhy was she trying to do this?
- xbar 4y agoNew Zealand is lovely.
- godmode2019 4y agoClearly "music" is a code word.
- PradeetPatel 4y agoNew Zealand had one of the strictest anti-piracy law in the world circa 2000-2011. Its there mostly to appease Hollywood and the US film industry iirc. Reference:https://www.google.com/amp/s/torrentfreak.com/new-zealand-3-strikes-begins-but-pirate-sabotage-is-in-the-air-110811/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/torrentfreak.com/new-zealand-3-...
- lostlogin 4y agoWe tried really hard to impress the FBI with helicopters and stuff. Half of it fell over in court, but that came later but our government got to be be friends with the big guys. I find it hard to believe NZ customs would be interested in music, pirated or not. Try bring a bit of fruit or meat though, that gets them fired up.
- celdon25 4y agoCheck out the VICE documentary on Kim Dotcom for the story told from his perspective. Public enemy #1, for a file hosting service that happened to be a part of the standard infrastructure for piracy. They went after him almost like they did Assange. I’m sure there are dozens of equivalent services now but the government doesn’t even bother keeping up. The market adapted in the form of streaming, subscriptions, and services.
- system2 4y agoDid she tell you why she wanted to hide her music collection? Is this a common thing?
- nix23 4y agoYes in the old times when your friend's where Emo's but you secretly listened to Britney Spears.
- ale42 4y agoSounds a bit like the hidden volumes in TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt...
- 7thSamurai 4y agoWow, that sounds super cool! Nice work on that!