This article was written by a human, for humans. 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 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. The Design Everything is completely open source: the firmware, hardware and mechanical engineering. The tools I used to design the device are also open source. Lets get into the design!…