Widget that behaves similarly to the command line tool nettop to show how
your computer is using the network. The widget is for Ubersicht, a desktop
widget app for OSX. Good for the curious or paranoid.
Currently the widget shows:
- What hosts you're connected to
- All active network interfaces
- All connections each application has open or listening
How this is useful:
- You can verify that your browser is using your VPN tunnel
- Are you running any unwanted servers or a backdoor?
- See who's connected to you
How this is useless:
- Hostname lookups are reverse dns lookups so it might not tell you much. For example all google services run off of 1e100.net
- Can only spot really poorly written malware
For more information on Ubersicht:
- Site: http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/
- Github repo: https://github.com/felixhageloh/uebersicht
- Widget gallery: http://tracesof.net/uebersicht-widgets/
- Install ubersicht
- Launch it
- Go to your widget folder:
Library/Application Support/Übersicht/widgets - Git clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/ricecooker/nettop.widget.git - Refresh all widgets
Coming soon