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Apple/Google: Help us out here. Put some container tech on the phones and have it driven by the entry of a "regular password" and a "duress password".

Have the "duress password" bring up a container with plausible faked call, text, browser, camera, etc, history.

Oh, and allow for user defined number of container/password pairs, for when the TSA asks for both passwords.



Have the duress password also activate the various sensors on the device and start shipping data to the internet. TSA agent's face, everything that's said, etc.


This is a cool idea, but it would also give them a way to tell that they're looking at the duress account.


How so? Presumably there would be nothing in the UI to indicate that it's recording anything, and the data would be stored outside of the restricted container.


Perhaps not an easy way, but any data transmission from your phone is detectable with external sensors.


Surreptitious audio recording is a felony in Massachusetts (and possibly other states).


There's some precedent that recording police officers isn't in the scope of that Massachusetts law: http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2011/victory-recording-public

Though it certainly might land you in jail anyway. There's any number of trumped up reasons to haul an uncooperative person off.




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