I have found this article: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows ... mpartment/
I hope it can give interesting ideas to someone.
Perhaps it can be used to hide program flags, for example to save a game and make harder for the user to mess with the saved file
Hiding data "behind" files on NTFS
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Re: Hiding data "behind" files on NTFS
Interesting, I didn’t know most of that…
You could use it to hide a cryptographic signature of the file to prevent tampering.
But on the other hand, I guess you could also just keep the signature in plain view without much harm..
You could use it to hide a cryptographic signature of the file to prevent tampering.
But on the other hand, I guess you could also just keep the signature in plain view without much harm..