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How to prevent files from being displaced? This protection should (somehow) persist through disk cloning. (discuss.online)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Undoing the protection should include filling in a password.
The password should be different from the one used with sudo or any other passwords that are used for acquiring elevated privileges.

All (possible) solutions and suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance!

Edit: Perhaps additional specifications:

With 'displace‘, I mean anything involving that resembles the result of mv, cp (move, cut, copy) or whatsoever. The files should remain in their previously assigned locations/places and should not be able to 'pop up' anywhere.
I require for the files to be unreadable.
I don't care if it's modifiable or not.
I don't require this for my whole system! Only for a specific set of files.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Definitely one of the better answers I've received so far. Thank you for that. However, I feel as if the following part reveals that it's not as 'protected' as I'd like:

It also doesn’t protect you if someone gets root access to your device through other remote means.

Though, at this point, I've somewhat accepted that I'm seeking a software solution for a hardware problem. Hence, the impossibility of my query... I hope I'm wrong and perhaps you can point me towards the solution I'm seeking. However, if that's not the case, then I would like you to know that I appreciate your comment. Thank you.