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USB's/External storage Nanonymous No.1089 [D][U][F][S][L][A][C] >>1090
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Does anyone have experience with "micro" or "low profile" USB's? I'm looking for something reliable and cheap to have in various sizes for live CD's, password management, backups, etc. I've had USB's brick themselves in the past and lost some data so I'm even more skeptical of the micro USB's reliability since some reviews of them have said they bricked themselves eventually.

Nanonymous No.1090 [D] >>1098

>>1089
Duplicate all valuable data elsewhere. This applies regardless of media type.
If you're too lazy/cheap to manage physical backup media, you could always encrypt your files with strong encryption and then upload them to a bunch of random file-upload services.

Nanonymous No.1098 [D] >>1099

>>1090
Yes I learnt that awhile ago the hard way. Which is why I'm looking into micro USB's for easily concealable backups. At the moment I have 4 redundant USB backups but they would be quite cumbersome to carry around. Also what's the best method of encrypting a USB?

Nanonymous No.1099 [D]

>>1098
>what's the best method of encrypting a USB?
gpg + 8192 bit key on all files

Nanonymous No.6051 [D] >>6053 >>6130
Yours is a very interesting post, OP. I happen to have similar concerns, as a frequent international flyer:
NO place on earth could possibly be more infested with glowniggers than international hubs. My present setup favors very large microsd cards, configured to work as Veracrypt volumes. Easily concealable inside other electronics and many other places. When plausible deniability comes into play, the options are also plentyful.

The only inconvenient of this setup for my travels is the irritating chore of unpacking the data and reimaging the laptop from its hipster-normalfag facade once I`m past glownigger checkpoints.

The next challenge is to smuggle 8TiB to a five-eyes territory. Any advice is most appreciated.

Nanonymous No.6052 [D][U][F]
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I have 246GB one for two years now and works well. Picrel, cost me 10$.

Nanonymous No.6053 [D] >>6055
I think samsung is top in the micro usb category.
>>6051
In one go? That wouldn't be easy. Maybe a few high capacity sd cards.

Nanonymous No.6054 [D] >>6057
Anyone knows if Wookey prototypes are being produced by someone?
https://wookey-project.github.io/target.html

Nanonymous No.6055 [D]
>>6053
>irritating chore of unpacking the data and reimaging the laptop
Just boot from the USB. Contaminating your "hipster-normalfag facade" harddrive with soykaf you want to hide right before traveling back over the boarder again is pretty lulzy opsec.

>The next challenge is to smuggle 8TiB to a five-eyes territory.
You don't need to bring your entire pron collection everywhere you travel.

Nanonymous No.6057 [D]
>>6054
You UNIX weenies never stop being retarded do you?

Nanonymous No.6072 [D] >>6130
The 8TiB should a one-time drop. Still considering the MO for this one. Could always SSH into the computer in country A after arriving in 5-eye country. While good for rsyncing, it would just take too long to deploy the 8TiB this way.

As for the routine setup, it averages at 100GiB, and that's what dd zero and random passes are for. The chore is to redeploy a dmcrypt-protected install of the anon's host and his VMs from the inconspicous (and encrypted) media. The zeroed out laptop gets the decoy OS in place whenever encounters with border glowniggers are expected. What's lulzy about this opsec, do you think?

Nanonymous No.6130 [D]
>>6051
They use advanced methods to flag you - borderline thought reading. If you're anywhere in the airport assume you're being continually scanned.
8TiB? Easy when you realize how you can fit 8TiB on a standard 4TiB drive.

>>6072
If your laptop is stolen, you get stopped while in country, unexpected departure, etc - you're screwed.
No need to touch the decoy OS if you run from removable media.
3 secs to remove removable media with data and laptop is vanilla new.