Trust, verifiably

The premise

Monitoring software has burned people before: silent telemetry, required accounts, bundled extras, numbers that turned out to be guesses. We can't ask you to trust us because we say so. What we can do is minimise what you have to trust, sign all of it, document it precisely — and make every claim checkable against reality.

Exactly what touches the network

Aikonic makes two kinds of network connection, and only two. First, licence issuance and verification: on first launch the app requests a licence (all tiers, including free Clarity), and it re-verifies periodically, roughly daily. That request carries the licence key or its validation status, a privacy-preserving, non-reversible hashed device fingerprint, and the app's version and product identifier. Nothing else.

Second, update checks: the app fetches a small version file from aikonic.app when it starts, about every six hours while it runs, and when you press Check for updates. The request carries only the app's own version number. When an update exists, Aikonic shows a banner linking to the download page; installing an update is always your decision.

No hardware readings, no usage data, no behavioural data, no crash reports — nothing from your machine leaves your machine. Your history (in Control) is a local file on your disk. The full policy is in plain language at /privacy, and it changes in the same release as any code that touches the network, never after.

Don't take our word for it

Run Wireshark, or any packet capture, with Aikonic open. You should see the two connections above and nothing else. If you ever observe traffic this page doesn't describe, treat it as a security issue and email [email protected] — that finding would outrank every feature request we have.

Signed, checksummed, scannable

Every installer and every binary inside it is Authenticode-signed by Hancock Technologies. From launch, each release is published with its SHA-256 checksum and a public VirusTotal link on the download page, so you can verify what you fetched matches what we built — before you run it.

About kernel drivers

Aikonic 1.0 ships without a kernel driver — which is why some die-temperature sensors show as honestly unavailable on modern Windows (the full story). The small, read-only, Microsoft-attested driver that restores them is in progress; its threat model will be published for review before it ships. We'd rather show you a gap than ship you a shortcut.

What we won't claim

You'll never read "military-grade", "unhackable", or "100% private" here. We can't prove a negative — so we minimised what you have to trust, signed all of it, and kept this page falsifiable. Aikonic is built on the open-source LibreHardwareMonitor sensor library (MPL-2.0), credited and licensed accordingly; standing on audited open work is part of the trust story, not a footnote.

Report a concern

Security or privacy concerns: [email protected]. Everything else: [email protected].