

Here's a small list of items I found around my house:

Be careful not to break it!Īfter you get that sorted out, search around the house for some silly items that we can hide our drive in.

This will reduce the size of the drive for when we put it in something later. Step 1 Picking a Suitable Item to Hide Our Drive InĬarefully crack open the case off your thumb drive and get the PCB out itself.

Today's Byte demonstrates how you can take some household items and rip them apart to conceal your hacking OS inside. With a hacker's OS and all of their favorite tools on a tiny little thumb drive, the hacker's next precaution might be to conceal the thumb drive in some way, so the drive itself would look inconspicuous to authorities if they were ever somehow caught in a raid. With a little tunneling and MAC spoofing, a decent hacker can easily go undetected and even make it look like someone else did the hack job. We have TOR for anonymity online, we have SSDs to protect and securely delete our data-we can even boot an OS from a thumb drive or SD card. Technology in computers these days are very favorable to the semi-knowledgeable hacker.
