[zeugma]

What would be interesting is for Apple or Google to one-up the Feds and make it not only encrypt by default, but to also wipe by default if a “wipe” password is used. In other words, you’d have two passwords. The one you use when you want to use your phone, and one to give to the government when it is prying into your life.

[Balding_Eagle]

Clever.

[e-gadfly]

What would be interesting is for Apple or Google to one-up the Feds and make it not only encrypt by default, but to also wipe by default if a “wipe” password is used. In other words, you’d have two passwords. The one you use when you want to use your phone, and one to give to the government when it is prying into your life.

Any competent investigator is going to start by copying the encrypted data and working on the copy, in order to overcome that tactic.

[e-gadfly]

Addendum: Some crypto systems (such as the defunct TrueCrypt project and its current successors VeraCrypt and CipherShed) have a "plausible deniability" arrangement -- you can set up an encrypted volume with two passwords, which reveal two different sets of contents (one decoy and one real).