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

How is this better than a Veracrypt hidden partition on a standard thumb drive?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    IIRC Veracrypt is easier to detect since it does some trickery with the filesystem and software while this has 2 memory chips and one is phisically disconnected then it scan for a string that looks like "password:1234" inside a file called "password.txt" at every write and if the password is correct it will connect the chip again, so it's virtually undetectable unless you crack open the USB stick and know what you are looking at (which is an highly unrealistic scenario for an airport unless you are in a country that's in a war period)

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