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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)
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[–] 10 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I would upload encrypt file somewhere and download it when needed. If you're worried someone will actually access your USB stick looking for encrypted data, why carry it at all? It's cool if you want to pretend you're a spy or something but it's not very practical.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    That's assuming that wherever you are going to or coming from has an internet connection. It's likely that there will be a connection, but it's still not a guarantee. And if there is a connection, the size of the files you're carrying may make using that connection impractical.

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

    Yes, but you can just carry encrypted hard drive with you. Hiding encrypted data is useful pretty much only for legal reasons. You want to take it across border and are worried TSA agent will force you to decrypt it or something. What is safer in that case? Carrying a USB stick with hidden encrypted partition or not carrying anything at all and downloading the data later? I would say the latter. Smuggling encrypted data through custom checks into a war zone with limited internet access is the cool but unlikely spy games scenario I was talking about. Encrypted microSD card would be even more secure in that case.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    to a war zone? such inspections are done not only in unlikely scenarious like when going to "a war zone"

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    The "war zone" was referring to difficult internet access. Iran recently cut off entire country from internet. If you're going to USA you may be inspected but you will most likely get internet access once you crossed the border.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I guess you might just want to carry all your passwords in there, but then generally the password file itself is encrypted so I don't see the point.

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