I find hiding info. in falsely deleted files to be futile because of the following reasons. 1. too easy to write over them. 2. procedures to keep track of everything too complicated. 3. direct sector writing is a non-trivial programming problem, rather risky, & complicated with today's compressed disks. I have thought of a related alternative however: The use of one of the virus maker's tools - the false "BAD SECTOR" trick where good data is written into these "bad sectors". You would only want to mark a few sectors as bad & then put in only high quality information. Some kind of a "bootstrapping" operation such as a simple XOR program that turns a "garbage file" into a PGP file. The PGP could in turn be use to decrypt a stenography system for a real high security encrypt system. Remember that a user supplied password must also be used. Incidentally, if we are forced to rely on stenography systems exclusively, we may have lost a battle or 2, but we will win innumerable other battles & later - the war. Yours Turly, Gary Jeffers GO TEAM GO! GO TEAM GO! PUSH EM BACK! PUSH EM BACK! WAAAAYYYY BBAAACCCKKK! BEEEAAATTT STATE!