This is a really interesting development from the Guardian Project!

I've been looking for a home security system and, for my price range, have only found Chinese-made webcam with disturbing privacy implications. To be able to use old Android phones and some free software that I can run myself for file collection and serving would be an optimal solution for me!

Good luck, team!

Ah, alright, so it monitors the sensors and sends a notification either over SMS or Signal. Got that.

What I don't really get is the "event logs and captured media can be remotely accessed through a Tor Onion Service". Whose Tor Onion Service? Wow, my phone runs an Onion service? Did not see that coming.

I'm assuming the phone needs to be charged 24 hours a day because something like this will kill phone batteries within a few hours.

> Whose Tor Onion Service? Wow, my phone runs an Onion service?

Seems like it https://github.com/guardianproject/haven/blob/0fd6f690ef6303...

I guess battery life is less of a concern for the suggested use case (e.g. turning a cheap, extra commodity device into a primarily stationary, plugged-in security system).

Maybe more appropriate: "Wow, my phone can _optionally_ run an onion service!"

https://github.com/guardianproject/haven/blob/0fd6f690ef6303...

Too bad Android basically ties my persona to the phone, making it difficult and awkward to use this on more than one device. Is there a RPi version?

It looks like this app can be installed from F-Droid or directly from an apk. Signal can also be installed from an apk. It seems like you could install lineageos or something on a phone, then install those from apks.

Even with Google stuff installed, I've got myself logged into a number of devices. So I guess I'm missing how it makes it difficult/awkward to use it on more than one.

You still need a SIM card with an active phone contract; something my burner phone doesn't have. Perhaps if they had a way of accessing a site like pastebin or whatever anonymously which you could monitor from your non burner phone (via tor if you liked).

I don't know of anything that has SMS or signal messaging built-in, but the motion project¹ would probably be a good place to start.

Motion + signal-cli[0] has been working well for me.

[0] https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli

(I forgot the footnote and don't have enough points to edit)

¹:https://motion-project.github.io/

If someone is worried so much about their privacy, why would they be sending any data such as a video of themselves over their phone's service?

As long as the traffic goes via the tor network, I don’t see any issue with this. All the provider sees is encrypted blurb.

Crashes immediately after the tutorial.

I really like the Guardian Project[0]. Their stuff is some of the first stuff I install on any new phone; it's part of what makes Android such a great OS for the privacy-conscious. It's also great to see that — contrary to what Wired reported — this is not just a product of Mr. Snowden's team. He's not trustworthy, but the Guardian Project are.

[0] https://guardianproject.info/