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Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 11 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

Or you could just use an encrypted file system...

If they are willing to torture you for the decryption key, then they are also willing to kill you if you destroy the drive.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    What we really need is encryption with a duress password that just shows some harmless files. Maybe have it overwrite the sensitive data if they want to verify size of the drive. Does something like that already exist? I know standard duress password does, but that could go down as destruction of evidence.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    You can embed encrypted data inside media files like video, image and audio files. Thats your best bet i think. You cant really hide an entire filesystem afaik unless you build a custom storage device with a controller that only physically connects certain sections under specific conditions.

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