Haven: To help safeguard digital security, one of the world's most prominent activists against digital surveillance has released a cheap, mobile physical security application.
On Friday, the Freedom Press Foundation (Freedom of the Press Foundation) and its president, Edward Snowden, have launched Haven, an application designed to turn any Android phone into a kind of universal sensor for detecting any intrusion.
Haven uses your phone's sensors to monitor changes in sound, light and motion.
The app is designed to be installed on every Android. Haven uses your phone's cameras, microphones and even accelerometers to monitor any movement, sound or disturbance in your phone's surroundings.
Let the app run in your hotel room, for example, and take photos or record the sound of anyone coming into the room while you're out somewhere. Then, it can instantly send photos and sound clips of these visitors to your main phone, alerting you to any interference with your environment. The application even uses the phone light sensor to trigger alerts if the light or a flashlight is turned off or on in the room.
"Imagine having a guard dog that you can take with you to any hotel, and leave it in your room when you are not there. "He's really smart, he's watching everything that happens and he's recording it," Snowden told WIRED in an encrypted phone call from Moscow.
"The idea is to be able to trust natural spaces."
Since becoming director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation in early 2016, Snowden has built a small team of developers and technologists working on tools ασφάλειας. Τα projects της ομάδας μέχρι σήμερα είναι λογισμικό ασφαλείας, κρυπτογράφησης και ανίχνευσης κακόβουλου software.
The idea of a smartphone-based alarm system arose when Micah Lee, a technology expert at The Intercept news agency and a member of the board of the Freedom Press Foundation, suggested it to Snowden at the beginning of 2017.
Lee was hoping for a new approach to a multi-year problem with the cyber-security community: It's very difficult to prevent someone with physical access to your computer.
Ultimately, Lee and Snowden's team of developers at Freedom of the Press Foundation partnered with the non-profit Guardian Project to create and test a software solution on this problem.
"We thought there was a way to use a smartphone as a security device," said Nathan Freitas, director of the Guardian Project.
In practice, the Haven app could protect them users της, εκτός από τους hackers που επιζητούν φυσική πρόσβαση σε μια συσκευή, και από ζηλιάρηδες συζύγους, κλέφτες ή και κατασκόπους, αν βλέπετε πολλές κατασκοπευτικές ταινίες…
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