Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — ‘Phantom Drive’ appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data
 Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — ‘Phantom Drive’ appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data

This USB looks like a standard 8GB drive, but it unlocks a hidden partition when you create a text file with the password inside. The password is never actually written to storage; it’s instead intercepted by the custom firmware and copied into the microcontroller’s SRAM during hashing.

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Unpowered SSD data retention test shows promising results after six years — results show no data corruption on USB sticks, challenging conventional wisdom

A long-term data retention test on unpowered flash drives shows promising results, with multiple drives of the same make showing no signs of corruption after six years.
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Grab a speedy 256GB Samsung USB-C flash drive for just $24.99 — save 52% on tiny waterproof storage for your important files and photos with speeds of up to 400 MB/s

Amazon-owned Woot has slashed the price of this 256GB Samsung USB-C NAND flash drive to just $24.99, securing you a cheap backup drive with a better-than-half-price saving.
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Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology — data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling

A computing enthusiast has assembled one of the most bizarre low-capacity USB drives we have ever seen.

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