Has no-one heard of StartAllBack ? I've been using it ever since my firm went Win11 - it certainly allows me to use small icons and move the bar to the left of the screen etc.

Surely that only applies if the data in the hidden volume was changed? What if you just put everything you wanted to be secure in the hidden container and never added more?

I think the OP was referring to their personal behaviour, rather than the behaviour of their code :)

Fair enough, but it's not particularly achievable is it? How would you go about stopping people getting hold of the software or, heaven forbid, from writing their own?

It must be closely related to the 'have lots of money and power' gene.

It is. It's more like the wet napkin has retained an imprint of the credit card and you have left the napkin behind on the bar. Someone then takes the napkin, hands it to you and says "you want to be careful with these wet napkins, look". You call the police because someone you don't know has your credit card details.

By the same token doesn't that call into question the legality of honey-pots to assess current attack trends? Surely that's entrapment? One day (I'm ever hopeful) people will realise that words on a piece of paper do not make things either right or wrong. Moral judgements trump laws every day all over the world, yet the persecution continues - I wonder why (well, I don't wonder; I know why, and so do you).