This Stealthy USB Drive Hides Encrypted Data in Plain Sight
People who are concerned about data privacy might use encryption or specialized hardware for additional peace of mind. But there is a cost associated with this approach: it makes your data look like it is valuable. Someone with malicious intent might pass by a thumb drive that fell out of a backpack, but a hardware-encrypted drive is an immediate signal that whatever is stored inside is worth protecting — and worth hacking.
A new open source project called Phantomdrive hopes to solve that problem by making an encrypted drive look completely ordinary. Developed by Ryan Walker of Rootkit Labs, Phantomdrive presents itself to a computer as nothing more than a standard, unencrypted USB flash drive. The rest of the storage is invisible, with no indication to the operating system that a hidden encrypted partition even exists.
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Unlocking that hidden storage doesn't require...
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