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You have no way to check if this app is sending network requests back 'home'? That doesn't seem correct at all.
by breakfastduck 5y ago
You have no way to check if this app is sending network requests back 'home'? That doesn't seem correct at all.
- marcodiego 5y agoFor such an intrusive application there are many ways to hide it. Not saying they do it, but I see no way to check it unless looking at the source code.
- MauranKilom 5y agoWell, two possibilities that come to my mind: - Run it in a Windows VM. The program could detect this and not phone home in this case, of course. - Monitoring on network level (wireshark on same network, Pi-hole, router itself...). This is virtually impossible for the program to circumvent. You could also audit the changes it made to the system (resorting to stuff like diffing disk images before/after if you really want zero trust) to verify that nothing sneaky was left after running the program once.
- stinos 5y agoIs it possible to circumvent Wireshark, Procmon and the likes? Otherwise those 2 combined give pretty good insight in what an application is doing wrt I/O.
- jabits 5y agoLooking at the source code is pretty useless unless you compile it yourself...