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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.
I'm sure that after requiring full access to all your phone's sensors, the app would never share that data with Russian hackers.
The idea is you use a spare phone and put it somewhere that it hopefully won't be taken.
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He has skills. He wrote his own WordPress theme.
In a perfect world, the open source community will drag a fine tooth comb through the code and we could be sure there was nothing malicious, but I don't believe in that world yet.
I think you are wise not to.
Over the years that contest has produced some stunning entries, including some that had as many as three different unrelated major functions contained in the same body of code. There is more than one way to hide secondary functionality of a program, some of which you would have to be quite clever to detect. The fact that Snowden is involved would serve to cause many people to drop their guard even if they had the skill and mindset to detect such obfuscated functionality.
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You give them access to the sensors on an old phone that you're not using anymore. It repurposes the phone as a security device.
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.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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
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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.
nah, the phone can be taken. The example given is phone placed on top of lappy in safe. Once phone sees evidence of tampering (movement, light level change, etc.) it starts taking pics and audio, and sends them to you over a Signal channel, SMS, or .onion host.
This isn't to prevent access to your devices (hard), it is to tattle tale that access has happened (easy).
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"why should I trust an App built by a guy who admitted stealing NSA data"
It depends on whether you think that he stole data from the NSA, or that he took data from the NSA gathered from the people it was supposed to serve as proof of their illicit activities.
There is a big difference between a selfish coward and someone who risks everything for what is right. It would be nice if people had enough attention span to discern between the two, but it could also be because most people cannot relate to sacrifice for a higher cause.