<story><title>Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police</title><url>http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cage-director-faces-jail-over-refusal-disclose-password-during-airport-interrogation-681177289</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amarant</author><text>Id like to be able to configure 2 passwords on my devices, one that logs me in, and another &amp;quot;destruct password&amp;quot; that when entered as password, wipes the device clean and overwrites the drive.&lt;p&gt;preferably I&amp;#x27;d be able to configure certain directories that should be wiped, so only confidential data is destroyed.&lt;p&gt;then it would log in normally. I doubt silly borderguards would realize the pwnage</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kortex</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s clever and all, but I feel like it dodges a very important human rights issue, rather than tackling it head-on. People shouldn&amp;#x27;t have to resort to some Inspector Gadget-esque &amp;quot;this message will selfdestruct&amp;quot; or real-partition-hidden-partition mechanism. Furthermore it also disadvantages people who are less tech savvy and can&amp;#x27;t implement such mechanisms. If you&amp;#x27;re not served a warrant, they shouldn&amp;#x27;t be allowed go snooping into locked devices.</text></comment>
<story><title>Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police</title><url>http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cage-director-faces-jail-over-refusal-disclose-password-during-airport-interrogation-681177289</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amarant</author><text>Id like to be able to configure 2 passwords on my devices, one that logs me in, and another &amp;quot;destruct password&amp;quot; that when entered as password, wipes the device clean and overwrites the drive.&lt;p&gt;preferably I&amp;#x27;d be able to configure certain directories that should be wiped, so only confidential data is destroyed.&lt;p&gt;then it would log in normally. I doubt silly borderguards would realize the pwnage</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lr4444lr</author><text>Clever, but would likely add &amp;quot;obstruction of justice&amp;quot; to the charges against you, and reduce your chances at beating the original point of suspicion, should it ever result in charges, due to spoliation of evidence.&lt;p&gt;Why not instead just refuse, and use the technicality of violation of privacy, to beat the authorities by making anything they find inadmissible in the first place?&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m assuming US-centric here, of course.)</text></comment>