packet garden

[somanyholes]

Packet/protocol based garden fun

http://packetgarden.com/

[Rik]

No good to me, So, it would just show a big patch for the forum.

[Gary]

Dont trust any thing that watches where I go

[Rik]

Does that include Justina, Gary? 

[somanyholes]

From the site gary

What kind of traffic does it take note of?

    * All raw traffic is logged and is used to generate the terrain, but only specifically detected traffic will be used to generate a plant. See here for a list of traffic types and examples of the plants they generate. After installing Packet Garden, you can edit the file filter.config in the config folder to filter for other ports. The list of ports PG filters for by default is here.

So, Packet Garden records a log of every single website I visit, every remote computer I share data with?

    * Yes.

I'm worried about privacy, does Packet Garden tell anyone else about what I do on my computer?

    * Packet Garden only records a personal log for you to later explore in the form of a 3D garden. As looking at the source-code will confirm, this log doesn't leave your computer. If you're worried about others finding out where you've been on the Internet, don't show them the gardens you grow.


so it monitors the traffic locally, not on a remote server it does this by setting up a local packet capture. If people are concerned about it contacting the web just block outbound connections on the software firewall. I have, but have seen nothing dodgy

[Gary]

Does that include Justina, Gary? 

Mainly Rik

[Gary]

From the site gary

What kind of traffic does it take note of?

    * All raw traffic is logged and is used to generate the terrain, but only specifically detected traffic will be used to generate a plant. See here for a list of traffic types and examples of the plants they generate. After installing Packet Garden, you can edit the file filter.config in the config folder to filter for other ports. The list of ports PG filters for by default is here.

So, Packet Garden records a log of every single website I visit, every remote computer I share data with?

    * Yes.

I'm worried about privacy, does Packet Garden tell anyone else about what I do on my computer?

    * Packet Garden only records a personal log for you to later explore in the form of a 3D garden. As looking at the source-code will confirm, this log doesn't leave your computer. If you're worried about others finding out where you've been on the Internet, don't show them the gardens you grow.


so it monitors the traffic locally, not on a remote server it does this by setting up a local packet capture. If people are concerned about it contacting the web just block outbound connections on the software firewall. I have, but have seen nothing dodgy

Its just a log that someone could get access to possibly So, just a personal thing, I don't even have history enabled in browsers and clear all information when they close and use a shredder to remove where I go, its just inherent paranoia in a world where I feel we are logged to much, and for me it has no use in that respect. That's all, just personal choice I do not want a garden or a log of where I have been available to anyone I even browse by proxy quite a lot as I dont like my ISP spying on me, anonymity is a rare thing in this age, but its a great thing to play with if you are not me