I saw this article on slashdot, but haven't looked into whether these claims are true yet.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/04/19/2231240/Michigan-Police-Could-Search-Cell-Phones-During-Traffic-Stops This sounds like our epic thread of years past about having an encrypted laptop when you cross the border and whether or not law enforcement has the right to invade your digital privacy without cause. In this case, I'm posing the question about what would be the best way to design/build/hack a phone which would behave as follows: -all user storage (phone contacts, calendar items, e-mails) are kept in removable storage like microSD -microSD chip is mounted via a FUSE like system that uses a strong crypto, using a strong key (4096bit or so) with a passphrase that the user knows (and allows for more than the standard 4-digit "unlock code" size) -at boot-up, the initialization procedure prompts the user for the strong key passphrase before allowing access to the user storage then if you happen to be driving through Michigan and a cop signals their lights to pull you over, you just hold down the power button on your phone for 5 seconds, and no matter what crazy device they think can crack the typical "unlock codes" to read your files, they wouldn't be able to get past your encryption _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
