Hey everyone
Today I am here with some pretty interesting news I read about. There is an app being developed called "Haven" and it seems really interesting. The app is being developed by The Guardian Project, Freedom of the Press and Edward Snowden.
The app will be open source and it will be a great way to turn your smartphone into a security device for free. The application will work on most older android phones as well since using your everyday phone for this purpose might be a little wasteful. But if you happen to have an old phone lying around somewhere then that one will probably work perfectly.
The idea is that the phone will work as a security system by using your phones camera, recording devices and accelerometer to detect sounds or movements in a room and immediately report it to the user.
For example you will be able to just leave the device in a place where you think something might happen and it will then(depending on your personal configurations) take a picture, record sounds and movements and then both register that for you and send a message to your "main" phone to let you know. The messages will be sent through SMS or to be extra safe via the Tor network.
If you want to read more about the application or the whole project you can do so by watching the video below that was provided by the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
The primary place of use for this kind of device will be people working with human rights and of course also journalists. The app will have a lot of uses for different people and I can come up with a lot of different situations where this could be huge. Probably the best feature is that it doesn't require a high-end device to work which gives it a lot of availability even in developing countries. At first it can be a little hard to think of good uses for this device but once you try and put yourself in other peoples shoes who work in dangerous areas and might be in constant risk then this is a great idea. In the announcement that was made for the application the developers explained it like this “Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal spaces and possessions without compromising their own privacy.” The application is available on Android right now but they also have plans to expand to other devices.
Let me know what you think about this project in the comments below and thanks for stopping by!
Hope you're all having a wonderful Friday so far.
Strawhat
