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How to prevent files from being displaced? This protection should (somehow) persist through disk cloning. (discuss.online)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by poki@discuss.online to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Undoing the protection should include filling in a password.
The password should be different from the one used with sudo or any other passwords that are used for acquiring elevated privileges.

All (possible) solutions and suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance!

Edit: Perhaps additional specifications:

With 'displace‘, I mean anything involving that resembles the result of mv, cp (move, cut, copy) or whatsoever. The files should remain in their previously assigned locations/places and should not be able to 'pop up' anywhere.
I require for the files to be unreadable.
I don't care if it's modifiable or not.
I don't require this for my whole system! Only for a specific set of files.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nothing can stop anyone anywhere from cloning a storage device. You can encrypt it however many times you want, but it can still be read at the block level.

I'm not sure where the paranoia lands or is focused towards, but there is no storage device that exists that can't be copied, so if that's your hangup, you should just accept that and move on. If someone has physical access to your drives, then can copy it, but whether they can decrypt it is up for debate.

As the saying goes: given enough time and effort, anything can be brute-forced.

[–] poki@discuss.online 1 points 4 months ago

Clear. Thank you!