[Feature Request] Plausible deniabiility

[CyberTailor]

Implement "Hidden accounts" feature. It would work like that:

1. User presses and holds current profile's avatar
2. Activity opens and asks for a PIN code
3. Hidden accounts are now shown in the list

• I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.

[viscountexx]

Is there a purpose to this feature? The phrasing of "plausible deniability" makes me wonder what the actual use case is here.

[CyberTailor]

Yes, if you're a political dissident in a country with an authoritarian regime (Russia, Belarus, Iran, ...).

[charlag]

It might also be useful for some closeted queer people to have hidden accounts but it is a big task, including notifications, share menu etc.

[realpixelcode]

Yes, if you're a political dissident in a country with an authoritarian regime (Russia, Belarus, Iran, ...).

I think it would be too risky for them to store anything like that on a smartphone. They would/should only use Tor browser sessions.

Also, having to enter a PIN doesn't guarantee plausible deniability. It only would if the hidden profile was encrypted in such a way that, even when analysing Tusky's storage, there would be no way of determining whether there's a profile hidden in the encrypted BLOB. That would basically be equivalent to implementing something like VeraCrypt.