Great app! Serious question: why hasn't something like this become a standard app if not OS feature? It is something I have always wanted. Want something similar for Android phone too.
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
#232Would you or others care to share the story of how they got hacked?
The only time I've been aware of getting hacked, my friend handed me his computer and said, "You're a nerd, find me a live pirate stream of the Big Game. Quick, people are coming over!" Friend may be too strong a word, but I gave it a shot even though I thought it hopeless. I went to some sketchy pirate sites, and I clicked on a link. A popup launched, and immediately there was an error; "Shockwave has crashed."
"Do you install updates?"
"No, why?"
Another time, my brother was lamenting that he couldn't take pictures with his phone because his SD card broke. I never used mine, so I pulled it out and handed it to him. A few days later I had to get some information immediately and the only device available was my phone. I was on a website and an error popped up; it was to the effect of "Can't download someapp.apk because you don't have an SD card."
Close call.
Edited to add:
https://incidents.org has good reads.
Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
#233Would you or others care to share the story of how they got hacked? The only time I've been aware of getting hacked, my friend handed me his computer and said, "You're a nerd, find me a live pirate stream of the Big Game. Quick, people are coming over!" Friend may be too strong a word, but I gave it a shot even though I thought it hopeless. I went to some sketchy pirate sites, and I clicked on a link. A popup launche…
> Safari can not verify the identity of "incidents.org". Would you like to continue anyway?
That's what I get in iOS. Teachable moment?
Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a Windows user (go on, press the down arrow) and I don't care about app design. Give me military ship grey windows, text menus and a way to hide all icons. Windows 2000 was for me the apogee of 2D design.
Despite flat design being categorized as a fad by design news today, I would LOVE a Win2k style desktop with flat design. Could probably just be a texture swap.
Not sure if that is what you mean, but Windows 8 has flat Window borders, buttons, etc. even on the Desktop.
Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
#235Would you or others care to share the story of how they got hacked? The only time I've been aware of getting hacked, my friend handed me his computer and said, "You're a nerd, find me a live pirate stream of the Big Game. Quick, people are coming over!" Friend may be too strong a word, but I gave it a shot even though I thought it hopeless. I went to some sketchy pirate sites, and I clicked on a link. A popup launche…
> Safari can not verify the identity of "incidents.org". Would you like to continue anyway? That's what I get in iOS. Teachable moment?
Perhaps. It reminded me of another incident; I tried to access EFF's Panopticlick, and got a certificate signed by "OHAI THAR" or something like that.
Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
#236Would you or others care to share the story of how they got hacked? The only time I've been aware of getting hacked, my friend handed me his computer and said, "You're a nerd, find me a live pirate stream of the Big Game. Quick, people are coming over!" Friend may be too strong a word, but I gave it a shot even though I thought it hopeless. I went to some sketchy pirate sites, and I clicked on a link. A popup launche…
> Safari can not verify the identity of "incidents.org". Would you like to continue anyway? That's what I get in iOS. Teachable moment?
It's using an isc.sans.org certificate. Connecting to https://isc.sans.org/ gives the exact same site, with no warnings.
Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
#237beautiful design!
other than that am gonna say what everyone ELSE is thinking, Security + Microsoft, give me(us) a break, last time i checked the word security does NOT exist in Windows
am surprised how THIS made it to the top of HN, probably has something to do with those users who were defending IE's developer tools ;)
Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Here is a library that helps to create such an interface: http://mahapps.com/ It's also mentioned in the blog post you've posted. Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of MahApps.Metro, I hope nobody minds the shameless self-promotion
Thank you for your work on MahApps. It's not perfect but does 95% of what I need when I drop it in to small WPF applications.
Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
#239The software and graphs look amazing. I started Windows after a long time just to try it out. I hope you will launch the linux equivalent soon.
Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
#240ITT: people care way more about the superficial qualities of security software than, ya know, security. This looks way easier and prettier than open sourced NIDS and HIDS like snort and OSSEC, and I think that's why I'm supremely skeptical they hired enough security people versus frontent people.
GlassWire isn't a replacement for an antivirus. I think the only way to see all network activity is by tapping into the wire itself. I made GlassWire to give myself an easy way to see what my computer was doing in the background but I do understand there are always going to be ways to bypass it along with any other application.
I'm not sure you are clear on what distinguishes a host based intrusion detection system, network based intrusion detection system, and antivirus. The feature list you are advertising sounds like a NIDS and HIDS, well known security software used in any secured network. I realize your software isn't antivirus like Norton or ClamAV. I am suggesting you might not be familiar with popular open source software that seems to accomplish your same feature set that large companies often use.