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

5 points by ToriTech 5 days ago | 8 comments

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.

kaihwang 5 days 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 5 days 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.

austin-cheney 5 days ago |

* Strong barriers against caller id spoofing

* additional caller id for calls coming from outside the country

* salary ranges for an open position is a good start. I would also like to see age of opening, number of people interviewed or evaluated, number of applications submitted. Many times job postings just feel false, like a data grab

* DNS block lists built into home routers by default.

* vpn points built into home routers by default

toomuchtodo 5 days 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/

worklifepanda 5 days ago |

A way to track globally what companies have stored my email or phone number and report them if they're not supposed to.

ecesena 5 days 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 5 days ago |

I want residential proxy IPs.

ToriTech 5 days ago | |

That sounds interesting, could you explain how that would work?