You have 30 minutes: Where would you hide a USB drive from the FBI?

[stewi0001]

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

 

[redgarl]

I would tell Tims have it on his computer, so we are not forced to see propaganda about DLSS or AMD selling their GPUs at unreasonable prices on Techspot and youtube anymore.

 

[Scrye74]

Assuming I don't need it again... I would gently set it next to my 10mm socket.

 

[BrianJohns]

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.

 

[Jim Shoes]

Just leave it in plain sight. Kash wouldn't know what a flash drive looks like.

 

[Jim Shoes]

Here's the answer...

https://www.amazon.com/Sprinkler-Outdoor-Waterproof-Corrosion-resistant/dp/B01L7A6EK6

 

[Mokona]

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.

 

[Mokona]

I'd microwave it.

Then run it through the garbage disposal for good measure.

 

[Klaian]

In a sealed plastic bag attached to inside of gutter. Bonus lay some leaves over it if looks natural for time of year.

 

[GriffJenkins]

Attach the drive and a gps tracker to a weather balloon and hope for the best when the heat dies down.

 

[jrtt0]

I would take the cover off, just keep the PCB, and hide it in some joint between the wall and the bathtub. 30 minutes is enough for it to dry and they will never look into that...

...will they ?

 

[RobMonteforte]

Some easy things like attach it to your outdoor dog or cat's collar, throw it up on the rooftop, bury it by just pushing it into the soil, or under a bush, stash it in your roof's down spout, cover it with peanut butter and feed it to your dog, paint the connections with clear nail polish and tape it in full view to the fridge door, stash it in your disposal, (requires talent) bust a hole in your wall, place it followed my dry wall putty and paint over that with latex wall paint, stash it in an LED light bulb (the diffuser is just glued on), or put in the spindle of a bathroom toilet paper dispenser with the roll replaced as normal.
But quick and easy way is to hold it vertically and step on it in your yard.

Realistically, if you did the crime, then own up and hand it to the FBI when they arrive, it's likely they will just plant one on you when they frisk you anyway.

 

[defvolnet]

I would take the first 15 minutes and make a couple copies of it, all three would be wrapped in a make shift faraday cage. One would go in the controls of the air handler of the heat pump, one would go in the pole on my slide next to the swimming pool and the third would go in a random outlet cover somewhere in the house or maybe outside.

 

[defvolnet]

Install a fake electrical connection near air handler outside with a cover plate it would be a pipe into ground with a 90 turn that has a cover plate. Then pipe part way into house if you already have one for legit reason use that.

Air handler is the unit inside your house, not a bad idea though.

 

[defvolnet]

Inside the house: Remove a bedroom door (three pins). Drill a 3/4" hole in the bottom of the door. Stash the stick in there. Plug with a wood dowel. Put the door back on.

Outside the house - Dig a 2 foot deep hole with a spike point crowbar. Drop the USB stick in there. Cover with dirt. Such holes are usually very small in diameter, and do not create fresh dirt.

Hopefully any 'electronic' odor will be minimized in case they bring in dogs.

Just drill the top of the door so you wouldn't have to take the door off, a side note most interior doors are hollow inside now days.

 

[jeffbert]

Sorry for not reading the 2nd half, but I saw a really weird fingernail the other day, It was 3D; such a USB chip might not fit under sux=ch a 3d fingernail, but, what about the big toe?

 

[HyperPete]

Wrap it in thin lead (as in for photographic film protection) and hide in the middle of my couch cushion foam with a zippered cover.
OR in a ziploc bag slid way up into a French drain in the yard. (Don't leave footprints!)