[Freedombox-discuss] School intimidates girl to give up Facebook password

[Bob Mottram]

Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>:

> How does (or how could) a FreedomBox help a user avoid giving up  
> their authentication credentials in the face of heavy-handed  
> coercion by a powerful authority figure?  This is not a rhetorical  
> question; i'd really like to hear explanations or proposals!


One possibility would be to have the ability to lock the login to your  
account to a certain geographical location.  If that location is your  
house, then it doesn't matter if someone else coerces the password out  
of you, because they have to be in a certain location to be able to  
use it.  There may be much stronger legal grounds to refuse someone  
entry to your house.

This would of course only work if you were using a mobile device with  
a GPS receiver to access your account.