By requiring the password to create it? The OS needs to create the hash from the supplied password, it wont just accept the hash passed to it.

alt+255
I used to do that to hide files from people at work. Most people didn't even notice the extra lind in the dir output if you created a directory named with just one alt+255. The same with a space as the first character for the most part.

Thats all MS has ever done. They have only been "on time" to the party twice and that was with Basic and DOS (and DOS was not even new but the market was). Since then they have relied on using their OS market share to drive everyone else out of the market by giving it away free with Windows - Internet Explorer, anyone. Times have changed and they can't do that anymore. I still remember being told, by MS themselves, in regards to several of their products "It's not the best, but it's free".

A loaded gun can be fired at you in a smaller number of seconds.

The only time your weapon should be unloaded is when you hand it to someone.

And then to the FedEx processing center, then to the FedEx distribution center, then maybe to another FedEx location, then back to your house a day or two later along with the recipt of the transaction with FedEx. What do you think, someone from Kinko's is going to run it over to your house because it's right down the street? What you did was just raise suspicion on yourself. Making everyone remember you a lot more - "Yeah, I remember him, I wondered why the heck that guy was mailing something to his house that is 2 miles away. No one in the office could figure that out."