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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today

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/pc-components/usb-flash-drives/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
The PhantomdriveTom's HardwareOpen-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 dataA trick to break the walls of hidden partitions.
digital_alchemist@digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de

Replying to @⁨Passerby6497@lemmy.world⁩

PSA: Veracrypt recommends against using hidden volumes on USB flash drives (source)

veracrypt.ioVeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the ParanoidVeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, needs very little memory, and does not involve temporary unencrypted files.
digital_alchemist@digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de

Replying to an earlier post

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.