Put a USB Dongle Inside Your Mouse for Hidden Storage [DIY]

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We've featured a few ways to hide your data in plain sight, but DIYer Thice took a different approach: he actually hid a USB thumb drive inside his mouse.
Whether you're looking to hide a flash drive's worth of data or just free up a USB port on your computer, you can hide a USB dongle (whether it's a flash drive, a bluetooth module, or a Wi-Fi receiver) inside your mouse with a USB hub and a little ingenuity. You'll need to know how to solder, as well as (carefully) cut up the circuit board inside a USB hub, but it's a pretty neat hack if you have the room to fit all the parts in your mouse (or keyboard, or whatever else you might want to use). Hit the link to see how he did it.

Hiding Your Data in Plain Sight - USB Hardware Hiding [Thice.nl via Hack a Day]

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Is Weakness a Vulnerability?

No, according to Microsoft.

BitLocker Drive Encryption is full disk encryption solution introduced by Microsoft since Vista (Ultimate and Enterprise edition) and with the enhancement in Windows 7. A lot of people do notice that full disk encryption isn't the panacea for data loss prevention.

Thus, in Windows 7, Microsoft takes it to the next level to protect your data - even on removable drive.

BitLocker-to-Go is a new feature available in Windows 7 (Ultimate and Enterprise edition only). It extends BitLocker data protection to USB storage devices, enabling them to be restricted with a passphrase. In addition to having control over passphrase length and complexity, IT administrators can set a policy that requires users to apply BitLocker protection to all removable drives before being able to write to them.

Does BitLocker in Windows 7 seems perfect? No, not yet.

Based on testing, first you need to have TPM before you can use BitLocker. In Windows 7, BitLocker allows you to protect the hard disk and removable drive (USB connection). But it still miss out the floppy drive and CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-RW.

This isn't a vulnerability. It is a design.

NTFS-hacked in USB without Hacking

I know there are many tools out there to allow you to format a USB thumb/flash drive to NTFS. By default, Windows allow your USB to be formatted to FAT only. Here's the instruction to allow you to format your USB to NTFS without any hacking.

1. After plug in your USB, open "My computer".
2. Right click "My Computer, select "Manage".
3. Open the 'Device Manager' and find your USB drive under the 'Disk Drives' heading.
4. Right click the drive and select 'Properties'.
5. Choose the 'Policies' tab and select the 'Optimize for performance' option.
6. Click 'OK' to close it.
7. Now, open 'My Computer'.
8. Right click the USB drive and select 'Format'.
9. Choose 'NTFS' in the File System dropdown box.
10. Click 'Start' to format it in NTFS.

USB 3.0 to Transfer 25GB in 70 Seconds

USB 3.0 will be unveiled soon, and so far the new specs for the protocol look incredible, promising 25GB transfers in a mere 70 seconds. To put that in perspective, the same transfer would take 13.9 minutes with the current USB 2.0 protocol and 9.3 hours on USB 1.0.