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

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Post by Semaphor »

greenwalls wrote: post #282
Semaphor wrote: post #279

It doesn't seem to do what it says. According to it, Outlook initiated it's first Network connectivity just now. A point in time where I had already sent and received mails for some hours. At least it so much better looking than other windows apps…

If you check the final installation window it warns you that you should reboot to catch all ongoing connections, but we plan to improve this in the future so a reboot isn't necessary. We didn't want to force users to reboot because I think that would suck.

My mistake, but you should at least make that information more visible. Unless there is a yellow or red sign, or some box to check the readme I do not assume installers will tell me about important things in the post-install window.

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

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Post by unknownBits »

greenwalls wrote: post #280
mbrownnyc wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also affiliated with Manycam LLC. Seems less like NSA, more like marketing guru.

My name is Jon Hundley. Anton is my cofounder. I founded ManyCam also with Anton and it was acquired last year. We need an "About" page on our site. GlassWire is now my only project. https://twitter.com/hundley

I felt paranoid, installed Glasswire, and got hacked!

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

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Post by greenwalls »

unknownBits wrote: post #293
greenwalls wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My name is Jon Hundley. Anton is my cofounder. I founded ManyCam also with Anton and it was acquired last year. We need an "About" page on our site. GlassWire is now my only project. https://twitter.com/hundley

I felt paranoid, installed Glasswire, and got hacked!

GlassWire is on HackerOne. https://hackerone.com/

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

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Post by Kiro »

mbrownnyc wrote: post #266

Hello all, The company that made this is: SecureMix LLC (est. 04/15/2014); aka Free Firewall Antivirus LLC (est. 10/17/2013); aka Blue Quail Capital, LLC (est. 06/21/2010). Here is the corporate registration: https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/servlet/cpa.app.coa.CoaGet... . The person opted to use a CPA (EDWARD H. GOWETT) to register their LLC (looks like a nice guy: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=34375436…

What's up with the doxxing? Has GlassWire done anything wrong?

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

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Post by PinguTS »

arihant wrote: post #276
huhtenberg wrote: post #131

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> All software related to security should be open source. That's a very common and dangerous misbelief. Security products should come from a trustworthy source . Open source doesn't imply trustworthiness. If I were to screw you, I can very well do it with an open source product and pre-compiled binaries. Some people will rebuild from source, but a vast majority will use binaries provided assuming that since I'm all "…

It's not just about screwing intentionally. Open source also helps with getting more eyes on the code. You need to be able to catch vulnerabilities before the bad guys or no amount of good reputation would survive. That is the primary reason for security software to be open source - reducing security by obfuscation and easy vulnerability check. That said, all software is written and audited by a group of individuals.…

That argument is often repeated and also that often falsified, that Open Source is better because there are more people who have an eye on it.

I just want to mention: — The famous Debian-Bug, which lead to easily guessable "random" numbers. Nobody reviewed that code change for years. — SSL Heartbleed. Nobody reviewed the code change by that guy. Not even the maintainer reviewed it.

So the problem with Open Source is, as I see it, that everybody - from those who are experienced - thinks, that someone else has done the review. Which leads to the situation, that at the end of the day nobody does a review.

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

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Post by unknownBits »

Kiro wrote: post #295
mbrownnyc wrote: post #266

Hello all, The company that made this is: SecureMix LLC (est. 04/15/2014); aka Free Firewall Antivirus LLC (est. 10/17/2013); aka Blue Quail Capital, LLC (est. 06/21/2010). Here is the corporate registration: https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/servlet/cpa.app.coa.CoaGet... . The person opted to use a CPA (EDWARD H. GOWETT) to register their LLC (looks like a nice guy: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=34375436…

What's up with the doxxing? Has GlassWire done anything wrong?

It is a made up title from a big $$$ company to promote their new app, that's what's wrong in the first place. How can you trust a company that uses a title like this to ultimately get you sign their licence and fetch your private data to make money out of it? This leads to being hacked with your own consent and that's why it is wrong and misleading. Try install the app and read the license to see what they want from you and it all becomes clear...

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

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Post by mbrownnyc »

greenwalls wrote: post #280
mbrownnyc wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also affiliated with Manycam LLC. Seems less like NSA, more like marketing guru.

My name is Jon Hundley. Anton is my cofounder. I founded ManyCam also with Anton and it was acquired last year. We need an "About" page on our site. GlassWire is now my only project. https://twitter.com/hundley

Honestly, sorry about that Jon. I wanted to bring some transparency where there was none, and this seemed reasonable to actually share some concerns (and I don't consider this "doxxing" or whatever that other guy said, more like "googleing over coffee"). I did install your app and it is great! Coming from using the flow tool argus (part of the CALEA collection toolkit), I always thought that analyzing flow/connection data was the next frontier in client/end user security; and sure enough GlassWire does just this! It is true, however, that further transparency would be good. I suppose that just comes with time. To keep it simple, this app being free really just makes me wonder what the catch it. So, what's the catch? :) I use Ghostery and that catch is pretty obvious.

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

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Post by blueskin_ »

higherpurpose wrote: post #200
gcb0 wrote: post #67

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that app has less features than a rock.

Nailed down the whole Windows Metro style experience.

Useless for actual computing but designed to appeal to anyone a room temperature IQ.

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

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Post by archagon »

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).

Super useful if you spend a lot of time tethering. Just set everything to "ask" and build up your whitelist over time. After that, you no longer have to worry about remembering to turn off your torrents, CrashPlan, etc.
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