View Single Post
  #9   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
Martin Brown[_2_] Martin Brown[_2_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,449
Default DIY privacy and security, the rights of the individual againstthe intrusive state.

On 01/08/2019 13:56, Max Demian wrote:
On 01/08/2019 10:56, Gareth's was W7 now W10 Downstairs Computer wrote:
I've been giving some thought as to how to
protect one's privacy from the ever growing
snoopings of the Brit monarchy and all its
lapdogs and subordinate dogs' dinners
such as GCHQ, the MIxs and the po lice,
and to kill off RIPA and the sending of innocent
people to jail for not revealing their
passwords and security keys to the plodderies.


Create a hidden partition on an encrypted disk like you can with TrueCrypt.


That would immediately raise their suspicions.
"Hidden" partitions are not very hidden from digital forensics.

Various obscure forms of steganography might work though if the
proportion of data you wanted to hide was relatively modest and you
don't mind slightly degrading your digital media.

This technique of hiding things in plain sight goes back a long way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

--
Regards,
Martin Brown