Many places don’t respect privacy laws, in certain situations you may be forced to unencrypt your media, or worse, assumed to be guilty. A Veracrypt hidden volume is useful in the former situation, but not the latter.

 USB drive that appears as an 8 GB drive when first plugged in. There’s no way for the OS to detect the remainder of the disk. If the user edits a plaintext file on the disk with the contents 

, it unmounts itself and remounts the second hidden section and AES-256 encrypts/decrypts in place.

With Phantomdrive, hopefully you’ll slip past authoritarian government representatives, corrupt police, and anyone else that doesn’t respect basic encryption rights.

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> Many places don’t respect privacy laws, in certain situations you may be forced to unencrypt your media, or worse, assumed to be guilty. A Veracrypt hidden volume is useful in the former situation, but not the latter.
>
> This is why I made Phantomdrive.
>
> Phantomdrive is a [completely open source](https://github.com/o7-machinehum/phantomdrive) USB drive that appears as an 8 GB drive when first plugged in. There’s no way for the OS to detect the remainder of the disk. If the user edits a plaintext file on the disk with the contents `password:PUTYOURPASSWORDHERE`, it unmounts itself and remounts the second hidden section and AES-256 encrypts/decrypts in place.
>
> With Phantomdrive, hopefully you’ll slip past authoritarian government representatives, corrupt police, and anyone else that doesn’t respect basic encryption rights.
>
> [**...read more at rootkitlabs.com**](https://rootkitlabs.com/2026/06/22/I%27m-Building-a-Secure-USB-Drive/)