Duress Password Features

Revliss

It would be interesting to have more than a complete wipe: send an email, backup a folder to the cloud, ring someone,.... like a proper dead man's switch. What other features would you add?

AcclaimSublevel19

Revliss like a proper dead man's switch

The duress password was never meant to be a dead man's switch feature. You want to command the device to stop working as fast as possible and get factory reset. Anything else would delay the process and would also be immensely hard to implement at the OS level.

The-Man

Revliss
how about UPS can send you a note in the post and while you wait, drinks.com can deliver you a cold beer.

Duress pin is quick, efficient and unstoppable, why would you mess with it?
" if it isn't broke, don't fix it, until it is"

1qkv9ddu3so2irvz

Big -1 here!
Whatever happens after the duress pin gets typed in, is supposed to happen as fast as possible.

Revliss

It could depend on the password typed.

Novalissoide

Revliss could depend on the password typed

But of course it could. I can also imagine a working feature that does Duress as reliable as it does now, and also safely takes a different input and trigger a number of important tasks, and then safely performs Duress as reliable as the normal one, but I could not imagine all the development needed for this to become reality.

Developer-Dude

I think the Duress PIN is good the way it is. I tested it on my 6a yesterday to wipe it. I don't see a need for more features. Its simple, to the point, and un-doable. Works as it should effectively wiping the device. That's all it needs to do.

Revliss

It's good at what it does but I'm still wishing for more: sometimes the very recording of an arrest is what you need to get out of trouble but you don't want all data to be accessible. Having a backup/send message option or hook would be nice. There is no need to be childish or mocking, the solution to my problem could lie somewhere else: there is maybe an app to do that that can triggered with a button press or something.

Novalissoide

Revliss an app to do that that can triggered with a button press or something.

There is, but a 3rd party app installed for doing this makes the already complex lockscreen afu state less reliable, and these things arguably are all about reliability, stability, consistent behaviour under all real circumstances. If an app fails in any of its actions when you need it to perform e.g. a selective wiping of data from lockscreen, it makes your situation worse.

Revliss

Any ways to hook onto the pwr button presses without breaking the security model? I can see plenty of use for this: start audio recording, send emergency message and other macros in a stealthy way. Right now starting a recording is:

unlock phone
switch to other profile
unlock profile
find app, open and click start recording
unblock microphone

It takes too long for investigative work or arrest recording.

Novalissoide

Revliss Settings > Wallpaper and style > More lockscreen settings > Widgets on lockscreen
Toggle this ON

Install a voice recorder app with a widget.

schklom

Any ways to hook onto the pwr button presses without breaking the security model?

Some automation apps can hook onto the power button double-press (e.g. Tasker) without breaking anything system-wide.

Anything more than that (unlocking phone, changing profile) is something that is dangerous for any app to be able to do (imagine if you misconfigure it or it gets triggered by a malicious user, you wouldn't know it happened if the phone is in your pocket!), and probably requires root anyway, so this is the wrong place for it.

It takes too long for investigative work or arrest recording.

For investigative work, make a profile with what you need and stay in that profile, don't bother changing. Same for arrest recording, or use a spare phone or dashcam.