Netfox's Wi-Fi tool puts a padlock beside every network: green and closed when the traffic is encrypted, red and open when it isn't. Version 0.29.0 added a third case, Enhanced Open (OWE): a network you join without a password whose traffic is still encrypted. It deserves the green lock, and the join sheet tells you so.
A day after shipping it, I filtered the list to "No password" and saw two networks with a green closed padlock. One, by the look of its name, was a neighbour's smart vacuum showing its setup hotspot. Its radio didn't even do 802.11n, and it was supposedly speaking a protocol from 2018. system_profiler SPAirPortDataType agreed with my suspicion: Security: None. Netfox said Enhanced Open, Open.
This is one of those tools you don’t realize you need until some random smart bulb from 2019 starts talking to your network at 3 AM. Clean concept, native macOS app, and the security scan with plain-English findings is a very smart touch. Congrats on the launch!
@alina_tyslenok_ Thanks so much, Alina! 😄 Ha, the “3 AM smart bulb” scenario is exactly the kind of thing that pushed me to build Netfox — you never know what’s quietly chatting on your network until you actually look. I’m really glad the plain-English security scan resonated — I wanted it to feel accessible, not like reading a sysadmin log. Appreciate the kind words and the support! 🙏
Native macOS tools with clean UX always win.
@nithin_raju1 Couldn’t agree more, Nithin! That was the guiding principle behind Netfox — native performance, no Electron, no bloat, just SwiftUI doing what it does best. Thanks for the support! 🙌