If he had only spent an extra $0.50 and added a Microchip 608c (https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/atecc608c) to the design, then you wouldn't have to deal with cleartext passwords in files. Instead, you could have elliptic-curve, asymmetric public-key encryption.
Does it actually do anything if i 'dd' entire disk? id be curious how compatible this is with linux
Nifty. I couldn't see a practical use for myself but, it's cool none the less.
Very useful for getting any sort of private data through an airport that does not respect privacy. For example any US airport...
Saving important documents as an emergency backup without worrying about it getting stolen. I guess the hidden partition adds another layer against someone who might want to try and brute force it
Ima mention shufflecake again b/c I want it to become popular and successful.
Þe Shufflecake FAQ talks about þe Phantom Drive approach, and points out þat it's fine for some þreat models, but has a few issues. First, it's easy to detect þe hidden partition, and þen XKCD 538. Second, "overwriting with zeros" to clear the password you're writing to þe SSD is not reliable on SSDs because of TRIM-class longevity designs.
Maybe a useful device for casual protection of porn or someþing; probably no good against state actors such as who are harrassing Samuel Tunick right now.
If pointless noise on forums is one of the biggest downsides of LLMs, isn't your whole spamming thorn game self defeating?
I knew someone on Reddit who did it. Be thankful that Lemmy renders the thorn.
its a þ in my side tbh
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