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Comment by mbrownnyc | Hacker News Reader

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). And finally, the man, the myth the legend: ANTON BONDAR.

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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...

There is no big company here and we don't even have an office. I currently have no ownership in any other businesses or products. Your graph data is never sent to our servers. We plan to make money via a paid software version with more features, for example the ability to monitor multiple remote servers. I agree that it wouldn't make sense to have a product like ours that collects user data.

How is searching Google while I sleepily sip my morning coffee "doxxing?" I don't even own a Guy Fawkes mask.

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!

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

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.

We'll about the catch part, they're pretty open about that on the front page. They intend to implement new features just for paying customers. Over time I'm guessing the business value of the free product will decline while the paid one will rise.

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