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From: 8tImER at gmx.net (8tImER)
Subject: Windows covert channel

Hello James,

my guess is you are talking about 'streams' in NTFS.
Example:
Create a text file, save it.
Then use 'echo "hidden text" >> file.txt:1' to add the hidden stuff.
I don't remember how to read that stuff out afterwards though.

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Originaltext:
Am 20.10.2003 um 01:04:21 hast du geschrieben:

> I seem to remember in the dim reaches of my memory a covert channel in
> the Windows file system where you could paste one file at the end of
> another without it being detectible when you edited the orginal file.

> can someone aim me at the right "buzz phrase" that describes this so I
> can Google it further?

> jim k

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