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Stego-empty hard drives...
At 1:01 AM -0400 on 9/19/98, Anonymous wrote:
> (Had this been a UK Customs 'inspection' of the contents of the disk, I
> might have had to explain the half-gig of "noise" I have on the disk.
> Only, it really is noise. Really.)
This makes me think of something that I probably missed in the bowels of
someone's long previous stego posting (um, stego^stego? :-)), how would you
go about either:
Stegoing an encrypted partition as "blank" hard drive space without
actually writing over it unless you wanted to?
or, even,
Stegoing an encrypted partition as not even *there* at all?
Doesn't seem like it would be too hard conceptually (hah!) and, if done,
might actually defeat such Archie-look-up-the-dress as the British
customsfolk are wont to do these days.
Obviously, even if the partition were found, it would look, to sniffer
programs, as if it were empty, right? :-).
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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