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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

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Post by cyanbane »

greenwalls wrote: post #29
cyanbane wrote: post #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?

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.

Thanks for the quick answer. I would pay for this in a heartbeat, great experience. Good luck to you guys.

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

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Post by greenwalls »

miles wrote: post #40

Beautiful UI! Just curious: why not block connection attempts from new programs automatically? By the time a user has noticed and blocked future connections, it may well be too late. On a related note, I recently tested a number of firewalls for Windows using Comodo's HIPS and Firewall Leak Test Suite[1]; the only one I found that passed all tests with virtually no setup or changes was SpyShelter Firewall[2]. Not an…

I use Little Snitch on my Mac. I found myself just "allow"ing everything all the time anyway. I think most users just get used to pressing "OK" and stop even paying attention to what they are agreeing to. I know I get lazy and do that myself. Instead I wanted to briefly alert the user and let them make their own decision, then we also added in some malicious host monitoring and other features to help. Users can use our "network time machine" feature to go back and time and see exactly what happened in the past. I haven't seen another product that does that.

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

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Post by ToastyMallows »

greenwalls wrote: post #39
ToastyMallows wrote: post #33

Site is getting hammered right now, but everything looks awesome. Are there any settings for VPNs? Does it work with VPNs?

You can use your VPN with GlassWire and it works OK but we haven't tested in detail. I used GlassWire with my own VPN and I didn't see any obvious problems so far.

Awesome thanks, I'll have to check this out tonight! Just a feature that I'm thinking of right now that would be nice is if it alerted you that your VPN dropped or was disconnected.

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

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Post by greenwalls »

woohoo7676 wrote: post #42

Downloaded it, love the idea and UI. My only niggle about the app now is that it could use better support for hidpi (the text is a bit jumbled). Other than that, great work!

Please post a screenshot to our forum with details or email us and we'll fix it.

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

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Post by hcarvalhoalves »

miles wrote: post #40

Beautiful UI! Just curious: why not block connection attempts from new programs automatically? By the time a user has noticed and blocked future connections, it may well be too late. On a related note, I recently tested a number of firewalls for Windows using Comodo's HIPS and Firewall Leak Test Suite[1]; the only one I found that passed all tests with virtually no setup or changes was SpyShelter Firewall[2]. Not an…

I believe the point is not being a firewall, but rather let the user know what's going on. Firewalls may cause all sort of problems for the common user by blocking by default, and still don't reveal privacy violations (e.g., whitelisted applications generating traffic at unexpected moments).

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

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Post by greenwalls »

purpl3p3rs0n wrote: post #35
greenwalls wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Running Windows 8.1 on Macbook Pro Retina (via bootcamp). I found this on MSDN...not sure if it's applicable: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn46...

Thanks! We will try to recreate this.

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

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Post by sahaskatta »

I just installed this on a Surface Pro 3. First off great app, but just wanted to give you a heads up: The icons in the taskbar and notification area are blurry due to a HDPI screen. A good portion of the interface is cut off or broken likely due to scaling issues.

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

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Post by greenwalls »

sahaskatta wrote: post #49

I just installed this on a Surface Pro 3. First off great app, but just wanted to give you a heads up: The icons in the taskbar and notification area are blurry due to a HDPI screen. A good portion of the interface is cut off or broken likely due to scaling issues.

Thanks for the heads up. We'll pick up a Surface and fix this.
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