Firmware update?

The "far end" now knows the device is "live"/deployed and (likely) some general idea of WHERE.

For big systems, it's nigh on impossible to assure yourself that there isn't something hiding inside that "isn't needed" (and can potentially be working against your intentions).

This, increasingly, as more folks blindly embrace FOSS codebases in the naive belief that all of the "contributors" were benevolent souls.

The laughable assumption that "lots of eyes" will see and detect these sorts of things shows just how naive adopters are. And, no, NO ONE on your team has a grasp of all the code you're leveraging!

Nice, makes tracking and hitting easier.

I have a lot of Chinese stuff at home, from satellite receiver boxes to speakers, to my 4G Huawei USB modems, to drones, and all sort of chips and toys, OLED displays, LCD displays much more.

All works great and is cheap. China likely now knows everything about me now :-) Ah, forgot Bluetooth stuff

Oops and wall warts of all sorts. Solar powered flashlight.. Just when I look around, Chinese stuff everywhere, And not just China, other countries stuff too.

US stuff? no... Oops using a Logitech keyboard and mouse Logitech - Wikipedia Logitech International S.A. (/ ˈlɒdʒɪtɛk / LOJ-i-tek) is a Swiss multinational manufacturer of computer peripherals and software. Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, [1] with an important operational headquarters in San Jose, California, [3][4][5] the company has offices throughout Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. It

So some in 'merrica, it is a wireless keyboard, maybe it sends all I type to trump?

Does the US and UK use wireless keyboards? ;-)

Will have to encrypt ;fjmkws;a fs;'[k fs'fwef pwp3q2r4f'f 'wpflg

beep!