Hiding psychologically a directory or file
If a thief, my wife, a cracker or other forces have unauthorized access to my hard disk:
What would be the most boring, inconspicuous, unremarkable directory/filename to NOT attract attention?
PS: Putting a DOT in front of filename hides the file (Ubuntu), but today the dot is not the point, but psychological distraction.
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I would say that depends on who you are trying to hide it from. Put it the last place you would think to look, and your wife will look there first, yeah?
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Put files in some system director and change the names and extensions to fit in
I've heard of putting porn and such in system file directories, like /var/lib/something
Also, you can use a jpg like a zip file, although if someone else knows this, the huge size could give it away.
We're onto you Podesta
>system directory
good idea, but any ideas for an external hard disk?
Are you retarded? Encrypt it.
Well, if I think about my movie-backup I dont't want to encrypt it.
If over the years there is one single error at the hard disk the whole big encrypted file is not readable: not encrypted, then one movie is bad but the others wotk fine.
Moreover here I want discuss the technique of psychological distraction
Keep a desktop folder named "NOT PORN" (all caps is important). Keep a couple of bikini pics in there but nothing too incriminating. Then hide the real stuff deep in the system directory. People find the bikini pics (maybe even a titty pic or two) and generally stop looking after that.
>t. my ex fiance used to use my laptop all the time for her uni work when we lived together and never found the 600GB of porn I had on there
>...and generally stop looking after that.
good idea to put something, so they think they have seen all and keep walking to other directories.
Works best if you look like you're attempting to cover it up, and act earnestly if it ever gets mentioned. Make a big show of "deleting it" if it's ever brought up, even if she says she's "fine with it", tell her you know it probably makes her uncomfortable and that you'll stop it for her. Congrats you manipulative fuck, she now thinks even more highly of you and won't ever go through your files again.
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*facepalm
I shouldn't have mentioned my wife. I was thinking primarily about hiding something from a thief who holds my hard disk in his hands!!
>I dont't want to encrypt it
Lame, and you spell like you're drunk.
>not encrypted, then one movie is bad but the others wotk fine
Encrypt individual files. Use recovery records. Make multiple backups.
Well if a thief gets it, you're pretty much fucked if you rely on psychological tactics alone. Your best bet in that case would be to create a program separate from the rest of your files that you have to enter a password into directly, otherwise any file that you click gets (legit) corrupted on first click. Fairly straightforward to do, and as long as there is no obvious indicator that this program exists or that a password is required to make the files usable, most thieves will simply think the files were all corrupted in the first place and move on.
Call the file:
Documentary-53min(1980)_Economical-history-of-british-shoemakers-of-18thcentury.mp3
Hide in plain sight, op. Steganography using boring family photos with the date they were taken as a name is the clear answer here to hide data from dedicated tech illiterates.
Just make sure to keep the file sizes within believable ranges. People will get suspicious of a 3gb photo of memaw from the 90s.
>Encrypt individual files
Thats alot of work: is there an tool/anybody shell script ideas?
>Use recovery records
What is this?
>program
on an external drive can't run a program?! (Too) straightforward like you said
My point is that often the not hidden thing is the best way to hide something; there is an shortstory of Edgar A. Poe:
the police looks during house search EVERYWHERE in a flat for some papers(behinf the walls, and opening the parquet floor),
they can't find it because it was not hidden: The papers were on top of a desk visible for all.
For something like this I'm lookin: A boring, inconspicuous name.
>Documentary-53min(1980)_Economical-history-of-british-shoemakers-of-18thcentury.mp3
Super fucking boring!
VERY GOOD!
>Hide in plain sight
Yes, this; but how
Steganography is nice, but too elaborate.
>photos with the date they were taken as a name
Good idea, but a photo could be tempting to open it
I'm lookin: A boring, inconspicuous name.
>What is this?
Bing it.
Use disk encryption.
C:\Windows\System33
Ya, install a distro onto an external disk then out it in there. No one will look those shitload of system folders
Layered Twofish encryption.
Driverstore.cab
>do not open folder
>with the incriminating files outside this folder
>If over the years there is one single error at the hard disk the whole big encrypted file is not readable
That's not true. If a block of an encrypted volume becomes corrupted, only that block and, depending on the mode of operation, the following one will be unreadable. Everything else will still be intact.
The only problem is if the header gets corrupted, but those are usually tiny and easy to back up.
Make an encrypted drive, find a videogame data folder, and put the file in there that mimics it. E.g if the folder has files like data1.dat, data2.dat,...,data11.dat, then name the file data12.dat
my bf uses a rct2 trainer subdirectory. I only found it because he left it open accidentally.
or go for the tried and true method
>\things\don't click
>\things\don't click\teens
>\things\don't click\cp
>\things\don't click\cp
Roller coaster tycoon 2?
you could easily write a bash script to use bcrypt or something. Or, you could use ecryptfs which gives you an encrypted directory to store your files in.
>shitload of system folders
:o)
cool, thats sounds good, thank you for the technical explaining, I love it to learn!
I have a lot to do.
Do you have an idea how big such a block is in general, or any website to read for me?
>ecryptfs
Shellscripts are my passion.
I'll read about en.wikipedia.org
>Do you have an idea how big such a block is in general, or any website to read for me?
It depends on the block cipher being used. AES, for example, has a block size of 128 bit.
Simply encrypting every block of data with a block cipher makes cryptanalysis very easy, since one can easily spot repeating patterns. That's why block ciphers are used in a specific mode of operation, to remove these patterns. Most disk encryption tools use either XTS or CBC. In CBC mode, a block of data is XORed with the previously encrypted block before encrypting the new block, which is why a corruption of one block results in two unreadable blocks. There's a Wikipedia article about this if you want to know more: en.wikipedia.org
Double ROT13.
Install a few videogames. Hide your files in the directories of these videogames. Nobody's going to look three directories deep in the lib folder of Half Life 2.
Who's going to look here?
Your mom, Steven.
Anyone who thinks to just search for large directories full of image files.
So put it in a screenshots folder instead.
Any person with a brain would image the drive and scan for files that seem out of place, so everything in this thread would basically just attract attention.
How does that help?
Just get an external drive and encrypt the fuck out of it. Being a cheap retard with stupid mind games will blow up in your face eventually.
>I shouldn't have mentioned my wife. I was thinking primarily about hiding something from a thief who holds my hard disk in his hands!!
Then they're either technologically incompetent and your laptop's password is good enough, or they're mildly aware of what they're doing and will scan your drive for interesting files.
Just fucking encrypt it you cuck. Backup the header and you're good.
Write a script that appends the binary data of your file(s) to the end of innocuous JPEG image(s). You can then at a later time recover the data from the JPEG using a reverse process.
Doesn't matter. Do you find your files looking at every directory, or do you just search for whatever extension you want? If I want to find your porn, I can just scan your drive and find out what folders have large amounts of videos/photos in them.
Pack 'em lightly in zip files, and hide them in jpeg's in a folder filled with vacation pictures n shit.
Google it, and keep it light so a jpeg isn't 2 gb or some suspecious shit
Save it within system files or some leftover installer.
Zip it to a .rar format. Then rename .rar to .dll. This makes it unclickable for most noobs and its contents won't be indexed.
Hide the .dll file for max security. It anyway looks like the kind of system file that should be hidden.
I used to hide things from my parents inside NWN mod archives
Just fucking encrypt it you mong
Create an encrypted tar file.
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that sounds for me quite small(=good)
so a corrupted block (if it concerns e.g. a small file(textfile/photo) seems to destroy only this smamll file and not the others
Thanks for the link
I think a ordinary thief won't do that.
My point - which I should have explained better - was to prevent about distract normal people (thiefs..."friends")
>Just fucking encrypt it you cuck. Backup the header and you're good.
As I that this thread shouldn't be about encryption(which is a super thing!), but thank you for the idea with header backup, which I dind't knew.
mmmh, nice idea, will thinkk about it(By the way wouldn't this destroy the readability of the picture-file?
>just scan your drive and find out what folders have large amounts of
I thought and hoped that a average robber/thief only would search a stolen hard disk visually.
Thank you for all your answers. Nobody has an outstanding idea for a boring filename?
By the way to hide a file in a picture is done by this:
( thanks for the reminding)
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I'd get some autismo tier security distro and install it in a virtual machine. No trace of browsing and torrenting, just a single image file you can encrypt. You can theme your VM with whatever fetish you're attempting to hide lol
In Ubunut, create a file in an NTFS formated USB key with in its name one of these :
* . " / \ [ ] : ; | = ,
Try to open it in Win-nt based system...
Guys,do like I did when I was living with my (curious) parents.
Just download a whole series you know they'd find boring, exchange some episodes with videos you want to hide, but keep parts of the episode in the beginning and the end, and maybe roughly in those points you'd randomly click when skipping through it.
Comes with full plausible deniability too.
>huh, I didn't even notice yet, must be some faulty download.
>generally stop looking after that
woman brain not wired like that user. No. No.
Nope.
>As I that this thread shouldn't be about encryption
Except it fucking should
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