• hidden tracks on floppy disks

    From warmfuzzy@700:100/0 to All on Fri May 25 16:41:11 2018
    Back in the day when floppy disks were still being used there was some
    software called 2M or 2MF. It allowed people to store around 1.9-1.98 megs
    on a 1.44 meg floppy disk, it did this by using sectors that were otherwise unused and it implemented a more efficient file system on the floppy disks. When these disks were read, without the driver being loaded, they would indicate that they had no readable file system. This is an example of hiding in plain sight... the files were there, they just weren't in a standard container format. This type of tech is still around today with media such as DVDs that have chapters that are burnt on to the DVD, but are inaccessable
    when the DVD is read from a normal DVD player or computer DVD playing
    software. In this updated method the new video is recorded on a chapter that is not selectable from within the DVD menus, but can be accessed by DVD copy programs such as Handbrake. Its something to think about, have fun with this. :)

    Best regards,
    warmfuzzy

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