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by DigitalSea 4469 days ago
Single executable file without no source code and no real explanation what is going on behind the scenes? Seems a little sketchy to me. You don't open up .exe files you get sent in emails (if you're smart) so why would this situation be any different?

You're going to find yourself swimming upstream on this one until you release the source code on Github or something, you could have anything lurking in that executable. The product you've created looks great though, I really want to install this and try it out, maybe in a sandboxed environment though.

Do what the developers behind the Popcorn Time movie torrent streaming app did, open source it and let others make it better whilst publicly showing that it is safe.

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it's a node app and it connects to a bunch of IPs.. not sure what they are though..

node-webk 3868 198.87.51.56:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 74.125.215.179:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 lax02s20-in-f2.1e100.net:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.67:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 a23-214-2-217.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.82:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.72:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.56:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.67:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.67:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.72:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.82:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.82:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.82:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.72:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.72:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.72:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.80:http (ESTABLISHED) node-webk 3868 198.87.51.67:http (ESTABLISHED)

https://github.com/hiphopapp/hiphop

Calls should be to itunes API, Youtube and Google Analytics BTW