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Haven App: A new revolution in home security system

Christmas has come. Party, fun, exchange of gifts are on everywhere. But what can be the best gift than security in our physical world as well as in our cyber life. In the eve of the Christmas, American computer professional Edward Snowden has appeared with such a great gift.

Edward Snowden: former NSA employee turned whistleblower

Few years ago, a data analyst of National Security Agency (NSA), United States of America, created a lot of chaos around his name. His name was Edward Snowden. He unveiled some classified information of the intelligence agency. Since then, a lot of dramas, legal issues, lawsuits happened. However, this computer techie has now come up with great idea which can change the whole face of our well-known domestic security system. 

Snowden’s idea is to turn a mobile device into a kind of motion sensor with the help of an app with a view to notify you when your device is being under any suspicious activity. The app can also notify you if a stranger has entered into your room, if someone has moved your things. In an interview, Snowden says that an android smartphone has everything required to build up a domestic surveillance system. A camera on both sides, 3 microphones, wireless communication facilities, accelerometer, internet connectivity-everything that is required for a strong surveillance system.

Snowden announced Haven as an open source project. Which means the published app is beta version and developers around the world is welcome to make necessary changes and help improve it. Haven turns a device into a motion, sound, vibration and light sensor. It sends notification to your personal phone if your laptop has been moved or tampered with. All you need is another android smartphone which will be your ‘Haven phone’ and then you just need to place the Haven phone on your laptop before leaving. Whenever Haven detects any unexpected movement, light or anything suspicious-it logs what happened. It will send photos, recorded audios to your main phone to alert you what has happened. To make this system more secured, Snowden has shunned idea of using cloud storage. The notifications which your Haven phone will send to your main phone, will not be stored in any cloud storage. The notifications you will receive on your main phone will be 128bit end-to-end encrypted over signal. Hence, it’s absolutely private and secured. It will be very hard for anyone to spy over your Haven connections.

Edward Snowden has released the app ‘Haven: Keep Watch’ with a collaboration with The Guardian Project, a media body who released his unveiled information about CIA and NSA. In the description of the app, the publishers have written ‘We designed Haven for investigative journalists, human rights defenders, and people at risk of forced disappearance to create a new kind of herd immunity. By combining the array of sensors found in any smartphone, with the world’s most secure communications technologies like Signal or Tor, Haven prevents the worst kind of people from silencing citizens without getting caught in the act’.




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