Best hiding place is in plain sight. I can't tell you how many times I can't find something when it's right in front of me! XD
You have 30 minutes: Where would you hide a USB drive from the FBI?
- Thread starter Julio Franco
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Assuming I don't need it again... I would gently set it next to my 10mm socket.
Way to go knuckleheads - now the FBI has several more ideas where to look when they raid your house! I'd guess this article was posted by the FBI to get more clues on where to look.
In the walls? Quickly take out a light switch/outlet, drop it in behind the drywall, and put the switch back in. Sure, YOU will have a hell of a time getting it back out as well, but, not even knowing the spot, they would literally have to tear the house apart to have a chance of finding it.
Another option, depending on your home: the ceiling crawlspace/unfinished attic. My house, for example, technically has an attic, but only the space right around the hatch actually has a floor (well, panel of plywood), for the AC to sit on - the rest is just insulation on top of the ceiling drywall, and the studs it and the wall studs are attached to, and the gaps where wiring goes down to the walls below). Anyone trying to walk on that will fall straight through the ceiling. Just toss it into the fluffy insulation material a good distance from the standing space - or even better, down one of the wall gaps, making it even harder to find than if you had tossed it near a switch/outlet.
Seriously, though, if you want to keep something out of the hands of a third party at all costs, you wouldn't be keeping it in your house in the first place (that's what wireless dead drops and geocaches are for). And if you do, for whatever reason, forget trying to hide it, anything can be found if they're determined enough, even if it's when you eventually go to retrieve it. Just use your 30 minutes to burn it, then run it through the garbage disposal - then, when whomever is looking for it arrives, smile, and hand them an already prepared separate encrypted flash drive, filled with hundreds of gigs of hardcore granny vore porn.
Another option, depending on your home: the ceiling crawlspace/unfinished attic. My house, for example, technically has an attic, but only the space right around the hatch actually has a floor (well, panel of plywood), for the AC to sit on - the rest is just insulation on top of the ceiling drywall, and the studs it and the wall studs are attached to, and the gaps where wiring goes down to the walls below). Anyone trying to walk on that will fall straight through the ceiling. Just toss it into the fluffy insulation material a good distance from the standing space - or even better, down one of the wall gaps, making it even harder to find than if you had tossed it near a switch/outlet.
Seriously, though, if you want to keep something out of the hands of a third party at all costs, you wouldn't be keeping it in your house in the first place (that's what wireless dead drops and geocaches are for). And if you do, for whatever reason, forget trying to hide it, anything can be found if they're determined enough, even if it's when you eventually go to retrieve it. Just use your 30 minutes to burn it, then run it through the garbage disposal - then, when whomever is looking for it arrives, smile, and hand them an already prepared separate encrypted flash drive, filled with hundreds of gigs of hardcore granny vore porn.
Then run it through the garbage disposal for good measure.
Attach the drive and a gps tracker to a weather balloon and hope for the best when the heat dies down.
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