Author: Rossy G
In this section we'll tell you how to hide data in a text file that can't be seen by anybody else unless they know the name of the secret compartment.
How it Works:
Ever since Windows 2000, the NTFS file system in Windows has supported Alternate Data Streams, which allow you to store data "behind" a filename with the use of a stream name. It's not detectable while browsing the file system or anywhere within Windows… you can only access it with the "secret key" which is really just the name of the stream.
You can think of these extra streams as secret compartments within the file that can only be accessed if you know the "secret code", which in this case is just the name of the stream.
This isn't considered the best way of securing your hidden data. Let's look at how this can be done in a fun and easy way. This only works on a drive formatted with NTFS.