Devices spying you

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i had a chinese phone (xiaomi?) for testing and I found it was uploading **everything** and calling home every minute or so, even the location was tracked, every dns request was forwarded too 😳
Another matrix, from the west to Asia.

Wireshark packet analysis ?
 
yep. I didn't discover it, I've read about it somewhere. Had to check myself and with the default settings (IIRC dns auto) and a lot of hidden spyware it really was sending it all somewhere in china.
contacts, sms, browser searches etc 😱

it was pretty big news in the tech websites.
The bootloader unlock screen had the red communist star 🤣

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Flashed lineageos (at the time) and it stopped. This was in 2019 IIRC.
Great phone after cleaning it all.
 
yep. I didn't discover it, I've read about it somewhere. Had to check myself and with the default settings (IIRC dns auto) and a lot of hidden spyware it really was sending it all somewhere in china.
contacts, sms, browser searches etc 😱

it was pretty big news in the tech websites.
The bootloader unlock screen had the red communist star 🤣

Main-Pic.jpg


Flashed lineageos (at the time) and it stopped. This was in 2019 IIRC.
Great phone after cleaning it all.
I am curious to experiment nextdns.io + custom configurations with Xiaomi, maybe I can find something interesting.
 

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