[guardian-dev] how to make panic button API for Android Apps

[Nathan of Guardian]

On 04/05/2013 02:35 PM, Hans of Guardian wrote:
> I just had a thought for the further development of the Panic Button/In The Clear features:  there should be a way for apps to advertise things that should be triggered by a central panic button.  This could happen in a number of ways:
> * standard panic broadcast that a central app sends, then each app has its own preferences for what that panic triggers
> * each app exposes all possible panic intents to the central panic control, then the user has a centralized place to configure the entire panic behavior across apps.
> Has anyone seen anything like this?

It is a fantastic idea, but I am really concerned how we would
authenticate or limit the panic broadcast initiation. If you use
standard Android event broadcasting, seems like it would be fairly easy
for a malicious app to impersonate.