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Depending on where the alleged offenses were committed, not decrypting that for which the authorities have a warrant to analyze can be a crime in itself. I’m all for encryption, but without plausible deniability - something that VeraCrypt offers with their hidden volumes feature - encryption might by itself not get you far. Again, depending on the jurisdiction in question. And depending on whether the authorities really want to invest the time and money into “catching” one pirate. And, finally, at least encryption gives you the choice not to decrypt on demand. I just wanted to give encryption some nuance.

HOW COULD I MISS THAT OPPORTUNITY

crying myself to sleep

It had to be ‘toys’ and not, say, ‘loot’? 😳 Sorry, I hear what I wanna hear…

Holy crap it’s like localsend on steroids! Thanks for sharing! https://github.com/localsend/localsend

Not a tool or website per se, but more of a system that I thought of to share loot - mostly single files - with normie friends that neither use a VPN or pirate in any capacity: just pack it in an encrypted archive, encrypt the file headers too, change the filename to something random, upload it to the cloud service of your choice, share the download link and the password to the archive with them and Bob’s your uncle.

https://magnetz.eu/

DM.

I moaned louder than a procreating moose when I finally got it.

::: This only works because it’s a written/printed meme though, because we don’t say “ten” if were are not counting in base 10, we say “one zero base four”, which you further can specifify as 10₄ in written language. :::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3MQQDYijqY

Dead serious question: I have only ever worked in the public sector (state level and local municipality) but often see or hear about these seemingly idiotic “interview questions” on television (and obviously memes).

Is this:

1. just a meme
2. just a joke
3. an actual phenomenon in the private sector

If 3, what on earth is its purpose and what could the interviewer possibly find out about the applicant by asking this?

I’m calm.

Thank you sir and I wish you a very Merry Christmas! :)

Thanks for the valuable input! :)

I always encrypt all my drives - external or internal - because at the very least, I have nothing to loose with today’s computing power. The overhead isn’t noticeable for me once the drives are decrypted, which takes two seconds with my Ryzen 5800 x3d.

Regarding what you said specifically about the peace of mind that it gives me if and when I were to sell the drives: YES. encryption can even be used as a method of securely wiping scrambling content.

Nope, they are hooked up to my retired gaming rig xD retired because my physical health makes it hard to sit in front of the PC and game 😭 poor RTX 3080 just sitting there…

Anyway, here you go! There is room for five more 2.5 inch SSDs in the back. I’ve even seen somebody mod this chassi to hold 22 HDDs he he.

Oh, and the software part: 4 x 4TB drives made into one 16TB logical volume with LVM, on top off which there is a LUKS container for whenever my home is raided (not that encryption helps legally speaking, unless you have plausible deniability…). I figured I don’t need redundancy with SSDs and none of the data is really anything that I couldn’t just torrent again. Maybe I’ll do an offline backup of them down the road.

Wow! Thanks for all the great advice! :D

Now I just need to figure out:

1. shall I drill a hole in the bottom of the closet for the Ethernet and power cables?
2. can I power the HDDs with a “detached” PSU that was originally meant to have inside a chassi? But then, the Pi doesn’t have SATA connectors… But maybe I can find some extension card than goes on top of the GPIO pins? 🤔

That’s also a good idea, but I want to seed 24/7 🙃

Thanks, I know, I’m not new to the game. I just had prioritize absolute silence over cost/performance, since I live in 30 m2 and I can’t stand the otherwise sweet buzzing of HDDs. I need absolute silence to be able to sleep, so I bought four 4TB Samsung 870 EVOs.

I am however planning to build an HDD rack with a RPi, which I then intend to keep in one of my closets in order to isolate the sound. For now, I have cages for eight. :)

Not that I can help out much with my already full measly 16TB of SSDs…

Anyway, noice!