If you would examine it, you would realize that 1) it’s open source, and 2) that it contains elements of plausible deniability, and 3) we aren’t talking about PGP.
Now, If you think that your every move is going to be analyzed by No Such Accountants, or their equivalents, well, you must be a very important and dangerous person.
For the rest of us in the real world, who aren’t James Bond, it provides an easy way to pass information even on removable media in front of regular cops, Fibbers, and others. It can be done regularly. It can be done with decoys. It can be done with encoded information that won’t make sense even if the plain text is discovered. It can be done with nonsense. It can be done with plans or messages for parties.
It is highly effective, as the hidden partition cannot be revealed under all but extreme investigative methods. Which don’t usually travel around in squad cars. There’s a time and resource element, where one can make them waste huge amounts of resources and time. It is far easier to generate fakes than it is to break through them.
Since you are evidently Dr. Evil, I suggest sharks with laser beams as a means of defense. The rest of us will settle for what we have.
You are posting at free republic. You are probably not as insignificant as you think.
“Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct. It is certain that today every honest German is ashamed of his government. Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes - crimes that infinitely outdistance every human measure - reach the light of day? If the German people are already so corrupted and spiritually crushed that they do not raise a hand, frivolously trusting in a questionable faith in lawful order of history; if they surrender man’s highest principle, that which raises him above all other God’s creatures, his free will; if they abandon the will to take decisive action and turn the wheel of history and thus subject it to their own rational decision; if they are so devoid of all individuality, have already gone so far along the road toward turning into a spiritless and cowardly mass - then, yes, they deserve their downfall.”
Think about this, the folks who wrote the above were essentially the freepers of their day and they were ferreted out without computers. There are some things I would sort of count on. “They” CAN read your mail. Things aren’t going to go well for “us”. The day is probably much later than any of us realize. March 13, 2008 was THREE YEARS ago. Good Luck. Make it count.