[boomboomsubban]

If they have the ability to take your computer, presumably they have the ability to search your residence. Where would you keep it out if reach while also being able to regularly use it? Or what would you do if the police showed up while using it?

[CommitSyn]

They have electronics sniffing K9s now. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/electronics-sniffing-do...

[otagekki]

For your first question, it's a stash at a walkable distance out of your residence. For fingerprints, wrap it up in a condom every time you fetch it. If you live in an apartment complex, store it out of your apartment at a place where people would never look thoroughly: the garbage room, for instance.

There should be a way to make the Tails OS in such a way that each time the USB is plugged in, the contents of the flash drive are moved to your computer RAM, so that if you plug it off without running `shutdown` explicitly, not only you'll shut the computer down in 2 seconds, but your USB is also clean. The `shutdown` command being run with the USB still plugged in then copies the image from RAM back to your thumb drive. Your non-destructive shutdown routine will obviously take a lot longer though.

[ajsnigrutin]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/267826934/micro-sd-card-reader-...

(nsfw... if you can't open it, the url explains it all)

[boomboomsubban]

Having the storage device on your person nearly 24/7 seems like a complete failure on the "plausible deniability" front.