Edward Snowden’s Haven app turns a smartphone into a security device

The name Edward Snowden will always be associated with the NSA, but the man has fingers in many other pies. His latest venture is an app called Haven which can turn a smartphone into a security device that keeps an eye on your possessions.

Haven is an Android app, currently in beta, designed to be installed on an “extra” phone that you wouldn’t mind losing. Placed with your belongings, it uses a phone’s sensors — microphone, camera, gyroscope, accelerometer, and so on — to detect and record theft and tampering.

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