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Tom's Hardware August 9, 2026 By Hassam Nasir neutral

Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data

This USB looks like a standard 8GB drive, but it unlocks a hidden partition when you create a text file with the password inside. The password is never actually written to storage; it's instead intercepted by the custom firmware and copied into the microcontroller's SRAM during hashing.
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