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This is HUGE! - $17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address. | Huge!!!

by Joe Mobley
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"We ran dynamic and behavioural analysis (on the pairing app) and discovered that when it was paired, it started communicating outbound over a random IP address to China," Raggo said.

"We don't know what the IP address is. "In terms of corporate espionage, in terms of risk, there's definitely a lot of suspicious behaviours there."
$17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address


I would suspect (expect?) that this type of thing has been going on for years.

I would not be surprised to find that most, if not all cell phones send information to various government and security agencies.

I would expect to find "government approved" instruction sets hard coded into the chips of computers, phones, iRobot Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robots, etc...


... and possibly some cats.


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    What's ironic is you're also tracking us via the bitly link (http://bit.ly/1QP3zjE).
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Originally Posted by Joe Mobley View Post



      ... and possibly some cats.


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      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      What's ironic is you're also tracking us via the bitly link (http://bit.ly/1QP3zjE).
      Bitly only track links by count, time and country.

      Also, Bitly links are public. Anybody can see the click count by adding a + to the end of the link.

      Give it a try.

      http://bit.ly/1QP3zjE+



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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Joe Mobley View Post

    Bitly only track links by count, time and country.

    Also, Bitly links are public. Anybody can see the click count by adding a + to the end of the link.

    Give it a try.

    http://bit.ly/1QP3zjE+



    Joe Mobley



    ...he said 5 hours after I already posted the + link.

    Every bitly link you post is tracking traffic sources the same as IPs are tracked. How do you think bitly is tracking that data (hint: IPs).

    Calling the kettle black ranting about China tracking anything.
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