With further research, I was wrong about this. It turns out Windows has features that can pin an external drive to a particular drive letter, along with services bound to a network interface such as Shares, it gives the owner/manager(Microsoft applications) direct access to your data on external drives in a consistent matter. And with the ability to "bind" services to a network interfaces, anyone who knows about this binding can connect to your system and access your files from anywhere over the Internet while you are online, thinking your data is safe from being stolen. But I've been able to identify and reconfigure this and will be part of my security suite. ...
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