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Clever , but seems insufficient protection on which to bet one's life. At a minimum, there should be an always-available partition to contain plausibly-deniabl
by toss1 3y ago
Clever , but seems insufficient protection on which to bet one's life.
At a minimum, there should be an always-available partition to contain plausibly-deniable files. Just having an empty USB drive is already suspicious, especially in any stressful situation (why would anyone go to the trouble of carrying something empty?)
The decoy partition should report full capacity even tho it may be small (just like the bogus "large" Chinese knock-off drives that report huge available space but are actually only small memory chips that will fail only when you actually try to load it fully).
Should probably also ship them with a wide variety of bogus off-brand labels. If some authorities figure it out, we don't want bulletins to look for one particular marking set to work.
- denton-scratch 3y ago> why would anyone go to the trouble of carrying something empty? 1. It's new. 2. You're going to load data onto it at your destination. 3. You carry it in case you need to copy data. I often carry an empty messenger-bag; a USB drive is a lot less trouble to carry. In fact you can easily lose one in the corner of a pocket, and carry it inadvertently. Provided it had never been written, I would regard an empty USB drive as unremarkable, and not grounds for suspicion. But you can't buy a new USB drive with a hidden partition.