Devices spying you

marioIT said:

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 ?

marioIT said:

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 🤣

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.

marioIT said:

oh btw it's not that far from what microsoft was doing with windows 11... so many connections open there, so many shared things, so much telemetry! 😬

NextDNS block directly Xiaomi resources 😀

github.com/smokedzn/xiaomi-dns-filter

Update. It's a nice project @marioIT

marioIT said:

oh btw it's not that far from what microsoft was doing with windows 11... so many connections open there, so many shared things, so much telemetry! 😬

BEAST 😀

Mr @gh0p, 🤡