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Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

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Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#21

Please send my compliments to the designer of both your app and website. both designs are clean, beautiful and work with the UI. bravo. it would be nice to have more info about how you monitor the connection and prevent any Trojans from going around the monitor point.

I will let them know, thank you! GlassWire is kind of like "Little Snitch" in the way that it shows you everything and lets you make your own decision on what you want to do, but we also add in some extra protections like malicious host alerts, ARP spoofing detection, DNS server changes, Host changes, and we let you know about changes to your applications that are accessing the network. For example if Chrome's certificate is changed or it's updated you should be alerted. Unfortunately nothing can stop trojans/viruses but we hope GlassWire helps some.

Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#23

Wow. I hate how so many Windows applications are considerably uglier compared to Mac counterparts. The Windows apps don't seem to push forward Windows design but rather get stuck in the Windows XP design days. This is beautifully designed and clear. The graph visualization is prime, and I love that the peaks are "rounded" out instead of sharp declines (sharp declines would make it look more like a live stock ticker).…

GitHub for Windows is another beautifully designed Windows app. They even published a blog post about it:

https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-for-windows

Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#24
Beautiful app, I looked at the Privacy Policy on the site & breezed through the Install legalize and it doesn't seem to include specific network traffic information being relayed back to remote servers in anyway (I easily could have missed this), can you confirm that you guys are not collecting network usage statistics from the app?

Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#29

Beautiful app, I looked at the Privacy Policy on the site & breezed through the Install legalize and it doesn't seem to include specific network traffic information being relayed back to remote servers in anyway (I easily could have missed this), can you confirm that you guys are not collecting network usage statistics from the app?

We absolutely can't see your network data and we don't want to see it. GlassWire checks for software updates and that network activity appears on the GlassWire graph. If you block GlassWire via its own firewall then you won't know about future updates.

Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#30

This is immensely helpful (and beautiful). I really like how you can monitor remote boxes. Customization of alerts is great too! Any chance you will support hi-res screens (see http://imgur.com/ztN8cL3 )?

Wow, that looks awful. What kind of screen are you using? I don't have one. Any details would be appreciated so we can fix this.
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