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Kolide
Company blog · kolide.com/blogsecuritybusiness
Kolide is the company blog at kolide.com, writing about security and business. Since 2017, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 57 times, most often “Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kolide's blog mainly for its post on whether Grammarly is a keylogger. Other mentions are about the endpoint security company, its osquery work, and its 1Password acquisition.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kolide ensures that if a device isn't secure, it can't access your apps. It's Device Trust for Okta users.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-07
- Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-25
- 1Password Acquires Kolide3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-20
- Kolide- OsQuery SaaS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-01
- Kolide Fleet for osquery – treat your infrastructure like a queryable database3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-11-06
- The Employee's Guide to Slack's Privacy Policy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-02
- Bossware is a big legal risk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-01
What Hacker News says?
Grammarly is also an OS-wide keylogger. https://www.kolide.com/blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-ca... They claim not to be a keylogger, but, you know, Amazon claims that Alexa isn't always listening too and/but/yet also that it'll wake up immediately when you say the right wake word. So, I'd take their claims with a lot of salt.
Comment linking /blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-can-you-do-about-it
on “Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken”Submitted Is Grammarly a keylogger? What can you do about it? as a story · 464 points
HN discussionKolide | Early-Stage | Full-time | Remote first, Onsite optional | Somerville, MA | https://kolide.com/ Kolide is an early-stage startup with a mission to build the world’s next generation endpoint security and infrastructure analytics platform. At it’s core, Kolide enables you to ask computers important questions, get back immediate answers, and take decisive action. Kolide does all this by leveraging the awesome p…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted The Twitter whistleblower story is worse than you think as a story · 218 points
HN discussionKolide | C++ Software Engineer on osquery | Fully Remote | Fulltime | https://kolide.com/osquery Hey there! Mike Arpaia here, a Co-Founder of a host endpoint company called Kolide ( https://kolide.com ) and the original creator of the open-source security software osquery ( https://github.com/facebook/osquery ) which I put together as a solution to Facebook's HIDS problem when I worked there as an engineer. Kolide i…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”Submitted GitHub Copilot isn't worth the risk as a story · 179 points
HN discussionFor IT/Security folks looking for a good rundown of what's new we put this together, talks about Passkeys, RSR, Gatekeeper improvements, and Lockdown mode. https://www.kolide.com/blog/the-security-and-it-admin-s-guid...
Comment linking /blog/the-security-and-it-admin-s-guide-to-macos-ventura
on “macOS Ventura is now available”Submitted Bossware is a big legal risk as a story · 176 points
HN discussionKolide -- Go Software Engineer -- US based, Full REMOTE https://www.kolide.com/company/jobs/4134612004 We're a small startup building device management tools. We believe strongly in https://honest.security and are trying to bring these principles to how companies think of security and their employee computers. We're looking for software engineers to work on our endpoint agent. It is entirely open source and written…
Comment linking /company/jobs/4134612004
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)”Submitted Google ads malvertising is targeting open source software as a story · 17 points
HN discussionKolide | Multiple Positions | Remote | Full-time | C, C++, Objective-C, Golang, Ruby, Rails Kolide enables organizations to achieve their security and compliance goals by practicing the tenets of https://honest.security . Instead of locking down devices, Kolide enables teams to communicate their organization’s security recommendations using Slack. Tailored notifications enable them to fix serious problems that canno…
Comment linking /company
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)”Submitted 1Password Acquires Kolide as a story · 14 points
HN discussionAt [Kolide]( https://kolide.com/ ) we're heavy users of Go Kit, and as a result have also adopted a lot of the style Peter recommends here. We've been slowly expanding on it with a style guide and company specific set of common libraries [here]( https://github.com/kolide/kit#kolide-kit ). My coworker also wrote a [blog post]( https://blog.kolide.com/using-go-for-scalable-operating-syst... ) on how Go has been fantas…
Comment linking /
on “Go best practices, six years in (2016)”Submitted The Security and IT Admin's Guide to macOS Ventura as a story · 10 points
HN discussionKolide | Multiple Positions | Remote | Full-time | C, C++, Objective-C, Golang, Ruby, Rails Kolide enables organizations to achieve their security and compliance goals by practicing the tenets of https://honest.security . Instead of locking down devices, Kolide enables teams to communicate their organization’s security recommendations using Slack. Tailored notifications enable them to fix serious problems that canno…
Comment linking /company
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”Submitted AI Browser Extensions Are a Security Nightmare as a story · 8 points
HN discussionCEO of Kolide here. This announcement couldn't have come at a crazier time...today I planned on announcing our intentions to enter the MDM product space. Our MDM is meant to be a new fresh take on device management that puts end-users in the driver seat. It's user focused device management and we are applying everything we've learned from our security product to the management space. https://blog.kolide.com/kolide-m…
Comment linking /mdm/
on “Apple Acquires Fleetsmith”Submitted 89% of Workers Use AI–Far Fewer Understand the Risks as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDefinitely. And you could write queries for the various indicators/files/etc., too (or use the built in YARA support and grab the rules from US-CERT). I just started working at Kolide ( http://kolide.com ) a couple weeks ago where we're building a whole product on top of osquery. I'm constantly surprised by "can it do (x)" and the answer is almost always yes. It's pretty solid!
Comment linking /
on “Osquery”Submitted The Employee's Guide to Slack's Privacy Policy as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt has to be a keylogger to do what it does. https://www.kolide.com/blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-ca...
Comment linking /blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-can-you-do-about-it
on “Bing AI Can't Be Trusted”Submitted Explaining the Backlash to the SSO Tax as a story · 5 points
HN discussionKolide's CEO here! ( https://kolide.com ) We have been a big part of the Osquery community for a while and we think it's an awesome project that can be used to get an insane level of visibility across your fleet. We also think in the context of rolling this out to end-users, companies need to really consider the privacy implications of the data Osquery is capable of collecting. To that end, we soft-launched a produc…
Comment linking /
on “Osquery: SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics”Submitted macOS Catalina and Osquery – I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you query that as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey, there are a few open-source projects doing this: - https://github.com/kolide/fleet - https://github.com/mwielgoszewski/doorman - https://github.com/zentralopensource/zentral Then there are a few freemium: - https://www.zercurity.com/ (Shameless plug - free for as long as you like) - https://kolide.com/ (Though no SQL interface anymore) - https://www.uptycs.com/ (Free trial) Hope that helps. I'm sure there are a…
Comment linking /
on “Osquery: SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics”Submitted 1Password Acquires Kolide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI can't remember the names of any of these companies, but I know there's a healthy ecosystem of "endpoint management" businesses that sell essentially this service (among other things, like endpoint security monitoring/EDR). The downside is then that you're running an ultra-privileged agent on each developer machine, with no particular guarantee that said agent is more secure than any given piece of software despite…
Comment linking /
on “VSCode remote code execution advisory”Submitted What's the Deal with Enterprise Browsers? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA discussion about osquery is incomplete without mentioning Kolide fleet: https://www.kolide.com/fleet/
Comment linking /fleet/
on “Osquery: Easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows and macOS infrastructure”Submitted The Employee's Guide to Slack's Privacy Policy as a story · 2 points
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