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Hide Sensitive Files In A Recycle Bin Decoy
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Posted 03 February 2008 - 07:04 AM
That's an awesome trick. I just noticed that if you rar the file, and then unrar it, you can see its true contents. Not sure if that works the same if you zip it, and the properties menu tells you how many files are in it. I'm sure that no one would think to zip and unzip the recycle bin though. Just had to add my two cents in there. Thanks again for the cool tip though.
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Posted 03 February 2008 - 12:30 PM
Just to throw in my 2 cents worth, depending on who you are trying to hide files from, this trick is largely useless. If you are trying to hide things from your little brother or some other casual observer, then it will be fine. The software that I use to examine disks looks at raw data, and does not even list file or directory names, so if I had your system in front of me, that trick would be worthless. When computers are examined in the real world, they are first compared against a list of files commonly found on a given OS. Those files that are not common are further compared against lists of known applications. This is necessary due to the size of hard drives; an examiner is only really interested in what is not usual, such as having two recycle bins, a recycle bin in the wrong location, or a compressed recycle bin. That just tells investigators "Hey! Look here first!".
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Posted 16 February 2008 - 06:45 PM
I tried it, and it wouldn't let me rename with that type of file name. Now I decided to delete the folder and it won't delete! What can I do to delete it? It's on my desktop and everytime I try to delete or rename it it would tell me it's being used by another program. I even tried to shred it, to no avail. What happened?
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Posted 16 February 2008 - 06:50 PM
Somehow I think that folder during attempt at renaming got corrupted. It said "type in valid file name" when I tried to paste that file name andrew suggested. Help!
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Posted 16 February 2008 - 10:52 PM
What is it currently named?
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Posted 17 February 2008 - 08:49 AM
In addition to this (sorry to kind of break up the question) could be this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q6AQL55zMR4
It shows a way to hide files inside of an image. When you double click the picture, it shows a picture.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q6AQL55zMR4
It shows a way to hide files inside of an image. When you double click the picture, it shows a picture.
