truecrypt

[xfreidax]

What are you running away from? Or maybe, the better question to ask is, "Aren't you tired of running?"

But then again.... Who am I to judge?

As cliche as it sounds, the truth does set us free. Even if it only exist in our heads. Having said that..... Boy am I full of disclaimers...

Try to arrive at a middle ground. Because despite what you may be thinking, they are family.

A little bit of give and take. Give it a shot. What do you have to lose?

[metro.]

Oh my god this thread is hilariously amazing. I'm sure that "oh no, I can't open this, must be nothing bad" will be their first thought.

[vuzedome]

Man I haven't heard the family against anime story in a very very long time.

[AceHigh]

Haha that is so true. Is this an appropriate thread to insert this?

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[megido-rev.M]

Encrypting a file [properly] takes several times more than actually copying it, and it already takes a while to encrypt a gigabyte. Multiply by 2048 and you have your estimate.

Anyway, if you're afraid of you parents deleting anime on your PC (which is funny), why not just put them in the OS system files location, make the directory 'hidden' and assign it the system attribute? Perhaps you could also disable search on the system a well. I doubt your parents would be able to figure out anything like that.

Or, you might as well get a dedicated external drive and safe, since an encrypted drive will not do well in performance.

Actually there was a court case already where police couldn't access the evidence because of truecrypt. Know what happened? The accused was ordered by the court to give the password or else be punished for not cooperating with the law. If I remember he told them that he forgot the password, something they didn't believe.

So yeah, so much for that. When you really need truecrypt to hold your secrets, it becomes "an obstruction for investigation" and you get punished regardless.

Huh. Looks like someone should have used the hidden volume feature.

[kitamesume]

the hidden volume wont work against pro investigators, if they know that the harddrive is 1TB and theres only 100GB of partition in it then they'd search for the 900GB that remains.

something like:

inspector: yo guys check this out, i found a 1meter cube box labeled "do not touch", ain't it suspicious?
investigator: you're right, but why is the inside only two inches deep? and its freaking heavy too.
*suspicious*

[bork]

Young people have not figured out that the reason older people seem smart is that the have already tried such things and have learned what not to do. 

They already know - they are just giving you some leeway before they have to take action. 

[megido-rev.M]

the hidden volume wont work against pro investigators, if they know that the harddrive is 1TB and theres only 100GB of partition in it then they'd search for the 900GB that remains.

something like:

inspector: yo guys check this out, i found a 1meter cube box labeled "do not touch", ain't it suspicious?
investigator: you're right, but why is the inside only two inches deep? and its freaking heavy too.
*suspicious*

Eh, no. Did you forget? The hidden volume is in the free space of the encrypted volume. If the volume 1TB, and the hidden one is 900GB, it's as if that 900GB was part of the 1TB's free space. There's no way to prove there's a hidden volume just by looking at the encrypted volume's mount size.

[vuzedome]

What truecrypt does it put a hidden volume inside a regular volume, so it looks like it's empty but it's not.
And if I recall right they can go one level deeper as well.

[kitamesume]

to hell with encryption, i don't need to hide anything anyway