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ameliustoday at 5:58 PM3 repliesview on HN

Someone should write a disk formatting utility that randomizes the bits on your drive.

Now you can claim that any encrypted drive (which just looks like pure noise if done correctly) is a drive that was just formatted.


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fhdkweigtoday at 6:02 PM

Be careful in countries like UK which have laws requiring the decryption of any data they find. There are people sitting in jail because they couldn't decrypt the "random noise" on their computers.

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giantg2today at 6:20 PM

Sounds a lot like stenography.

https://github.com/dishather/steganodisk

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ErroneousBoshtoday at 6:10 PM

That would just be dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/path/to/device