Ask HN: What are some privacy/security tools you wish exist, but don't yet?

What are some things you want built to protect your privacy, but don't exist yet, for whatever reason? It can be anything, browser extensions, software, adblockers, or physical security devices. I'm curious and I want to see what the world needs right now.

5 points | by ToriTech 8 hours ago

5 comments

  • kaihwang 6 hours ago
    a tool that actually shows what third party SDKs in your own apps are phoning home to would be huge, most people have no idea what their own dependencies are sending out. everyone builds network level tools but that app level visibility is missing.
    • ToriTech 4 hours ago
      Oh, now this is important. I'm not too familiar with app security, especially telemetry, but I will look into the process of making something like this.
  • ecesena 5 hours ago
    google drive where you don’t see the files, but you see the people who you shared to, and if you click you can see which files.
  • WarOnPrivacy 4 hours ago
    I want residential proxy IPs.
    • ToriTech 4 hours ago
      That sounds interesting, could you explain how that would work?
  • toomuchtodo 7 hours ago
    What do you think are the biggest privacy and security challenges users face at scale? Determine the problem, work back to the solution.

    https://ssd.eff.org/

  • tmpsvc2695f5 2 hours ago
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