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

    KGB Phone!

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. Re:Completely safe and secure by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 3, Informative

    The app is Open Source and is available from an open source app store.

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  5. Re:Completely safe and secure by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm sure too. The source code is here: https://github.com/guardianpro...

  6. Re:so... by networkBoy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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