> In response to this, Mozilla has designed a way to lock the device and offer guest access to apps predefined by the user with a green light to allow anyone to use them. All other apps will remain behind a password protected wall until the primary user changes the settings.
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240215078/Mozilla-launch...
This is actually an idea I also came up with after the whole Miranda thing at the UK airport and finding out that the UK authorities can arrest you just for not revealing your devices' passwords, which I think is just insane, especially if you're just passing through UK. I don't know what the UK people are thinking, but they can't let anymore days pass by without repealing this awful law.
But I think I had a slightly better idea for this. Don't just make it obvious that there is another account on the phone. That doesn't improve things too much. Completely hide the accounts, and when you're asked for a password, it should open up the account according to the password you're using.
So if you pass through the UK airport, and they get your phone, and they get prompted for a password, you can just tell them the password to your "safe" account, and they would be none the wiser. That's what I've been hoping Google will implement for Android, but it would be nice if Mozilla did it to push this idea out there.
The second thing I wanted to say here, and also something I've been thinking about for even longer, but perhaps now is the perfect time to do it - Mozilla should create a Firefox to Firefox (or to Chrome extension) end-to-end encrypted chat app. This could all of the sudden bring true communications privacy to over 300 million people at once. It would be amazing!
The reason I say it's the perfect time to do it now, is because Open WhisperSystems has already done most of the work on creating a very secure asynchronous protocol that even works with groups, and they've said they're already working on a browser solution, anyway.
I'm sure they'll create a Firefox extension either way, but if you could work with them on this, help them out with the funds they dearly need, and then put the app front of center on Firefox as an integrated part of Firefox (you could even promote it as a secure communication solution to enterprise users), that would be fantastic.
The problem with end-to-end encryption right now is that it's barely seeing any support from small fundless groups, and none of the large platform owners seem to have any interest in deploying it. Mozilla is one such large platform owner, it's also an open source organization, and they seem to be working on improving their users' privacy. So I couldn't think of a better large platform to do this first.