Snowden's New App Haven Uses Your Smartphone To Physically Guard Your Laptop (theintercept.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: The NSA whistleblower and a team of collaborators have been working on a new open source Android app called Haven that you install on a spare smartphone, turning the device into a sort of sentry to watch over your laptop. Haven uses the smartphone's many sensors -- microphone, motion detector, light detector, and cameras -- to monitor the room for changes, and it logs everything it notices. The first public beta version of Haven has officially been released; it's available in the Play Store and on F-Droid, an open source app store for Android.

Comments

Who was Haven written by?

[hsmith]

Snowden is nothing but a glorified sysadmin that stole a bunch of documents - who wrote this for him, FSB?

Re:Who was Haven written by?

[jon3k]

Even worse, I believe he was a sharepoint admin. He specifically took the job to try and steal documents (the CIA caught him doing the same and warned the NSA not to hire him). He's not some great savior whistleblower who happened to stumble onto something nefarious. He went searching for something that he could release for fame.

Re:Who was Haven written by?

[samkass]

... who is living in Russia at the pleasure of the Russian Government. Do you REALLY want to give a Russian-supplied application access to all the device's sensors? I know it's open source, but a lot of stuff can get hidden in code...