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Re: STEALTH OCEANS
Sergey Goldgaber <[email protected]> writes:
>> might work, except for the fact that fragmentation _does_ go on, and when
>> you were to write files to the drive (heck, I do every time I start up
>> windows and write a huge temp swapfile) you're going to be playing
>> roulette with your data.
>This problem is solved by simply using a utility that writes directly to the
>disk (exactly in the specified sectors, in the specified order), instead
>of letting DOS fragment your disk.
I've been talking to Sergey behind the scenes, and I think I understand
what our miscommunication was: he is proposing this type of technique
ONLY for removable-type media, e.g. floppies.
To store this type of data on your harddrive would be to dedicate your
harddrive to stego. This was my argument all along; what we failed to
connect on was the fact that only floppies are involved. With floppies,
every write *can* be controlled and the data would be relatively safe (and
obscure, for that matter).
This correction is being posted to the list because his original post
said nothing about removable media.
mt
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