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If I got it right, you could easily detect this drive by just creating password.txt. as the article says it creation is intercepted and skipped. Hence if there is no password.txt afterwards, you know what you're dealing with. Still, you have to know this AND care.
It's only skipping if your password matches. Otherwise it'll just be a normal file.
Ah okay, so then I retract my statement and better my reading-skills 😁
It looks for a string "password:xyz" bring written to any file, where xyz is the password. If you get the password wrong it'll just write the file normally
Ah okay, so then I retract my statement and better my reading-skills 😁
No worries, I had to read stuff outside of the articles to get that information