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The current state is far from usable, but the final goal would be to have multiple nested "hidden OSes" that can be booted and managed concurrently, depending on the provided password.
Nice one. I’ve been using Veracrypt for many years now, after the whole Truecrypt fiasco. Just one friendly advice… always have a decoy partition or decoy OS, otherwise it seems very suspicious to have a disk filled with random data ;-)
If this concerned me I would just wipe the drive and/or factory reset the device before travelling, and restore it later, rather than try to experimentally figure out what games I can and can't play with the customs authorities.
I'd be more concerned about what they could plant on my machine versus what they find on it.
> Imagine you're entering a country at the airport. The border agents seize your laptop and force you to unlock it If this concerned me I would just wipe the drive and/or factory reset the device before travelling, and restore it later, rather than try to experimentally figure out what games I can and can't play with the customs authorities.
> Imagine you're entering a country at the airport. The border agents seize your laptop and force you to unlock it If this concerned me I would just wipe the drive and/or factory reset the device before travelling, and restore it later, rather than try to experimentally figure out what games I can and can't play with the customs authorities.
See also: https://github.com/IncognitoIceman/HiddenVM Unfortunately, it looks like this version is no longer maintained. "HiddenVM is a futuristic tool powered by KVM designed to combine the powerful amnesic nature of Tails and the impenetrable design of Whonix with the unbreakable strength of Veracrypt."
Can you elaborate on why to see it, also, since they look like forks of the same project?
I’m not following what this gives you that Veracrypt's inbuilt hidden+decoy OS feature doesn't already? It seems they require you to manually set up a veracrypt hidden partition for anything to be "hidden" anyway. How is booting your encrypted partition in a VM within Tails more secure than booting it directly?
There will be no proof of an operating system existing at all, just random data. If you use VeraCrypt along with a hidden partition normally, you would still have the VeraCrypt bootloader or an apparent Windows installation on the drive.