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

Posted by msmash on from the app-to-watch-out dept.

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.

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  1. Completely safe and secure by Burdell · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure that after requiring full access to all your phone's sensors, the app would never share that data with Russian hackers.

  2. DA! by Templer421 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    KGB Phone!

  3. Re:Who was Haven written by? by jellomizer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That was my thoughts as well, however despite the ego of software developers, making an app like that doesn't take super programming abilities, just some time and effort.
    But my main worry is why should I trust an App built by a guy who admitted stealing NSA data? It is like getting your keys duplicated by an admitted house burglar.

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  4. whats with the shills? by nimbius · · Score: 5, Insightful

    im seeing a lot of suspicious attempts at character assassination in the comments and theyre fairly easy to debunk, so here goes.

    Even worse, I believe he was a sharepoint admin...

    check wikipedia or the guardian project to figure out what this man actually did and who he worked for. He was a BAH contractor. Just because your employer is too daft to assign you anything but a menial job shoveling the sharepoint shit, doesnt mean you're too stupid to do real work.

    I'm sure that after requiring full access to all your phone's sensors, the app would never share that data with Russian hackers.

    except that Haven is open source you tit. It has 5 developers and currently 1 asshole from slashdot trying to torpedo it
      https://github.com/guardianpro...

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  5. Re:Who was Haven written by? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He is a whistleblower because he published documents proving that the US government agency he was contracted to work for violated the law. I'm not sure why you are directing your anger at him.