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

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Post by Swannie »

Holy crap, this got popular fast.

This will probably stop some drive-by hacking - great. But my understanding from some well informed people, is that increasingly rootkits can hide their network traffic.

So, whilst this will add piece of mind, you'll still need to maintain security - because all this will really do is let you know you've been "hacked" again. Sure, it may prevent the dropper from connecting out - but often that would look like Flash or Java just connecting out to a random host.

As someone who got hacked, and installed NoScript, I'm amazed at the number of hosts that even mainstream websites connect out to. I struggle to stay on top of my whitelists. I just don't think you're going to see the dropper in time and stop it.

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

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Post by db42 »

marcamillion wrote: post #212

Love this. The installed app looks just as good as the screenshots. One question, what does "powered by Symantec" mean? Is this just a sexy UI on top of a Symantec engine?

I think its just for domain ssl certificate - http://www.symantec.com/ssl-certificates

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

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Post by ridgeguy »

eric_h wrote: post #75
gregbarbosa wrote: post #16

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).…

On the subject of Mac counterparts, I highly recommend Little Snitch for this particular functionality. I have no affiliation with the developer, I've just found Little Snitch to be quite useful and thought I'd share (admittedly it's graphs aren't as nice as this app's).

Second your Little Snitch recommendation. Invaluable.

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

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Post by marcamillion »

db42 wrote: post #213
marcamillion wrote: post #212

Love this. The installed app looks just as good as the screenshots. One question, what does "powered by Symantec" mean? Is this just a sexy UI on top of a Symantec engine?

I think its just for domain ssl certificate - http://www.symantec.com/ssl-certificates

Ahhh....ok.

Thanks!

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

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

sbarre wrote: post #196
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's mostly privacy concerns, but also the fact that you use this software at all can disclose some interesting information to eavesdropping attackers. Most worrisome is just that it's not very well disclosed - most users just don't know it's happening, and it's not very well justified.

How can you say "most users don't know it's happening" when it's the first thing you see in the graph when you load the application? We got your initial point.. I think you're just grinding metal at this point.. Ease down.. ease down...

I don't see anywhere that it discloses what is being sent, just that it's sending something. Did I miss something?
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