I would not be surprised. There have been cases of this kind of data mining happening with cheap tablets, and even chinese keyboards.softech wrote: ↑ agreed.. I have been avoiding Chinese network equipment and camera.. there have been report about that some of them packed with extra features: secretly sending data back to China
btw, again.. anyone ordered anything from www.pc-canada.com? is that good and reliable?
This is easy to protect yourself from though, just add a firewall rule to disallow traffic to WAN from the IP of the untrusted device. Assuming of course, you are not relying on some cloud service. That will completely take away their ability to phone home even if they wanted to.