Oct 27, 2018 Glasswire. Glasswire is another popular free network monitor and firewall application for Windows 10. Unlike other software in this list, Glasswire’s user interface is pretty modern and fluid. What I like most about Glasswire is how easy and intuitive to use it and the beautiful graphs it shows relating to the network activity. AlternativeTo is a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate. The site is made by Ola and Markus in Sweden, with a lot of help from our friends and colleagues in Italy, Finland, USA, Colombia, Philippines, France and contributors from all over the world.
LS4 has had a few private betas up until now, but it's in public beta at this point and some of the new stuff they've been working on is pretty interesting. Their main landing page has been updated for LS4 [1] and has a nice general summary of new features with screenshots, but trying to submit that link just goes back to the HN discussion on LS3 five months back [2]. The What's New is more detailed. I'm particularly curious how their improved Research Assistant 2.0 will turn out. They're making an effort to open it up and turn LS4 into a bit more of a platform, allowing 3rd party devs to make specific descriptive information available:
- For GlassWire Android go to Google Play and tap the top left three line menu and choose 'subscriptions'. Then tap on the subscription you wish to cancel. For GlassWire.com desktop software please find your original order email and there is an instant cancellation button inside the email.
- Jun 25, 2017 I don't know how Little Snitch does it as I've never used it, but one of my favorite UX/UI implementations for something like this is how GlassWire does it. When something connects to the outside, it subtly notifies you about it, you see everything in an easy to read list, and you can also easily take action like instantly-block something.
>Third party developers can now bundle their apps with an Internet Access Policy file containing descriptions of all network connections that are possibly triggered by their app. Little Snitch will then display that information to users, helping them in their decision how to handle a particular connection. A description of the policy file format will be provided soon.
Glasswire Vs Little Snitch Game
Research Assistant is a useful feature and at first blush this seems to have the potential to make it even better, assuming LS has enough market penetration to actually get more then a handful of devs to provide a description. The spirit of transparency is a good one too. One thing I wonder about though is how well they're prepared to deal with lying, because this seems like it could possibly open up a potential risk for social engineering. Can the developer of an application making a connection a power user would consider worth blocking actually be trusted provide their own description? If they do lie (directly or by omission) or even simply obfuscate about what it's doing, is Obdev up to policing that?
Latest traktor pro software. Having used it since version one though I'm excited about a lot of the new changes. I hope OpenSnitch and similar projects are inspired and vice versa.
What Is Glasswire Software
1: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Better Than Glasswire
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13443858