Secret USB drive ?

arnuld · 2011-06-25 13:34:22

My friend has a USB drive. Its kind of secret drive, means when you put it in Windows it shows itself in Device Manager but not in My Computer. You can't access it (or see it in My Computer) unless you use special software provided by them (drivers). He bought it for that reason as he does not want it to be accessed by anyone. Company title is somewhat like "manupatra".

My friend wants to access it on Linux. I plugged it on KNOPPIX Live CD and it shows itself in the output of dmesg and lsusb but not in fdisk -l. It was just like Windows then.

How this USB drive can be accessed in Linux ? or generally whats the idea behind this, it is hardware level secrecy or software level ? can it be accessed without those special drivers when they are not available for Linux ?

Awebb · 2011-06-25 14:53:16

So you already checked dmesg and lsusb, yet you didn't provide it in your post?

.:B:. · 2011-06-25 15:24:13

It probably doesn't report itself as UMS (universal mass storage), so you won't get a block device for it, unless they provide a driver for Linux.

Why doesn't he just use a regular USB stick, with encryption for his sensitive data, like TrueCrypt, which is cross-platfrom?

adamlau · 2011-06-26 06:34:30

For discrete keylogging I presume.

doorknob60 · 2011-07-10 04:28:14

My friend has one of those, where we couldn't access it in My Computer on Windows, but with his it showed up like expected under Linux, and it was no problem accessing the files. That just sounds annoying, hiding drives? Stupid if you ask me...

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Secret USB drive ?

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