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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by brokenmachine on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @02:55AM (#27525647)
>Usually when you encrypt a drive there's a telltale header

Not necessarily.

https://www.truecrypt71a.com/documentation/plausible-deniabi...

2. Until decrypted, a TrueCrypt partition/device appears to consist of nothing more than random data (it does not contain any kind of “signature”).

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Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords by bccdee on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:36PM (#27533188)
Huh — I was unaware that TrueCrypt has plausible deniability by default. I know it's possible to set up plausible deniability, but with LUKS that takes extra steps, and I assumed the same was true of other disk encryption schemes.
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