Creeva’s World 2.0

Pic­ture from here.

We’ve all read the arti­cles fly­ing around online over the last cou­ple months about your data being con­fis­cated at the bor­der and ana­lyzed by the bor­der patrol.  The sim­plest solu­tion of course is send­ing your data across the inter­net if you have to go through a bor­der cross­ing and your wor­ried about your data being com­pro­mised (cloud com­put­ing FTW).  The next best solu­tion is using True Crypt and using a real encrypted vol­ume and a hid­den vol­ume.   You risk hav­ing to dis­close your encryp­tion keys to unlock our vis­i­ble vol­ume, and with hid­den encrypted par­ti­tions becom­ing a com­mon the­ory, they may be on to you.

So what about hid­ing data in plain site?

Got a text doc­u­ment you need to hide — find a soft­ware that can take all the words in the doc­u­ment — pro­duce a ran­dom word file and mixes up the words but all the words are still leg­i­ble with alot of chaff words included.   If it’s named some­thing like dic­tio­nary out­put 1.txt,  dic­tio­nary out­put 2.txt, etc. etc.   Make sure you carry a copy that can undo this in your web­mail account where you can get at this and make the files usable after the fact.

Images?   Those kinky pic­tures that you felt you had to take with you and you couldn’t bear to mail to your­self in an encrypted fash­ion?   Well that’s a bit eas­ier.   They are look­ing for image files on our drive (exten­sions don’t mat­ter so don’t think you can get by using hte method of renam­ing your .jpg to .gpj’s).   You can how­ever con­vert your files into pho­to­shop or gimp for­mats and use lay­ers.   Take your illicit pic­tures and put them as a bot­tom layer in your new image file.   Then on top of that add some other images as other lay­ers.   When they open up the files in gimp, they are unlikely to go through all the lay­ers look­ing for por­naog­ra­phy.   Bonus points if you use stenog­ra­phy and, hide that data in a pic­ture — then using lay­ers to obfus­cate the data further.

These were just some ideas off the top of my head, I’m not leav­ing the coun­try any time soon.  If I was, I would be trans­mit­ting all of my data encrypted across the inter­net.   If trust­ing the net­work is too much for you, your wel­come to try these meth­ods.  Your mileage may vary.