[robotburrito]

These phones need a kill expression or finger. If you touch a sensor with your left pinky or wink at the camera it nukes the phone.

[smashed]

That would be destruction of evidence.

A solution that can seem like plausible deniability could be interesting.

[ranger_danger]

Unless one has been ordered to preserve evidence already for a pending court case... proving that someone knew said information was valuable as evidence, and willfully destroyed it knowing so, might be extremely difficult.

[qingcharles]

People say this on every thread where this comes up.

If the phone is in your pocket and somebody puts a gun to your head and tells you not to move, you are not pressing anything on your phone.

[NoImmatureAdHom]

Perhaps a lawyer can chime in here.

My impression is deliberately doing this would be illegal. It would have to be convincingly deniable somehow.

Is there a way to do that?

[ranger_danger]

There are very specific rules for proving destruction of evidence. For a criminal case the burden proof in the US at least is "beyond a reasonable doubt", so someone would likely have to prove that you knowingly destroyed valuable evidence before you'd get in big trouble. And if you haven't already been served with something saying you need to preserve evidence, they might not have any claim to information they had no idea existed beforehand, especially if you don't talk.

[rolph]

if something made them decide to force a particular finger into a sensor, what happens next is a result of thier own actions.