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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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[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll stick to a Veracrypt full disk encryption with a hidden partition. All the benefits of a duress password, none of the data deletion that gets you V&

[–] digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They don't recommend against it... It's a detailed guideline on doing it successfully.

[–] digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

They make a very poor job of highlighting something so important in a dense page detailing how to do what they recommend you don't.