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Comment by dheera | Hacker News Reader

They should really implement a dual user / dual password system to combat those countries.

If you enter password 1 it goes into your normal account, if you enter password 2 it goes into another user account with a burner environment where you can install a few token commonly used apps for plausible deniability.

The existence of password 2 should be optional and you should not be able to tell if the system has one or two passwords configured.

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> install a few token commonly used apps for plausible deniability

It's gonna be seen as pretty implausible when you don't have constant & recent messages with your loved ones in there.

I dunno, my elderly and non-tech-savvy in-laws travelled to the US (from Canada) last week and wiped their phones of social media apps and stored messages before crossing the border based on media reports around the US CBP’s handling of border crossers’ devices, so I’d say an empty phone is pretty plausible for anyone in that situation.

You can either use: separate user accounts (needs context switching) or a new private space feature. Private space was introduced with Android 15 and can hide its existence (from the launcher).

it would be better for plausible deniability if it just had all your apps minus a few hidden ones, but keeping the rest with all their data.

Some alternate ROMs already have this, duress mode I think it's called

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