• umami_wasabi
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    21 days ago

    That scanner is simply looking for high entropy data, and then report to its operator. It wouldn’t care if it is a drive or a volume or a file. If the entropy is high, flag it.

    All random data have high entropy, same for encrypted data. The officer can see you have high entropy data then start throwing questions at you.

    This community need better understanding of cryptography and how it translates to real world. Deniable encryption exists and does work on paper, but only on paper.

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      21 days ago

      All random data have high entropy, same for encrypted data.

      That is exactly what i said.

      If random or deleted or fragmented or corrupted files will lead to me being questioned, then every data carrier will lead to a lotof questions.

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        Sorry. Data structures exists and uniformly random data is rare. Patterns still exists.

        And deleted is a bad counter as deleted files won’t have a record in the file system.