Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server

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Post by henriklied » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:24 AM UTC

Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
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Post by chvid » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:37 AM UTC

Very nice of the Chinese military to choose a .cn domain so even the Norwegians can see what is going on ...

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Post by milankragujevic » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:39 AM UTC

I knew of that 9 months ago, but nobody was interested so I dropped it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329825

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Post by jgaa » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:41 AM UTC

It's a bug. The URL was corrected to mil.no/etjenesten in the software update mentioned in the article.

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Post by taurath » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:42 AM UTC

That’s some pretty bad QC on Nokia’s part. It’s not like it’s clever even with some takeover of the lte chip, it’s just up there in your face running on the application later.

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Post by taneq » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:44 AM UTC

milankragujevic wrote: post #3

I knew of that 9 months ago, but nobody was interested so I dropped it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329825

Ouch. One of those times when it sucks to be right, I guess...

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Post by anilakar » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:45 AM UTC

Nokia is just a name on the phone. The trademark licensee is HMD Global while engineering and manufacturing has been outsourced to Foxconn, a Chinese company.

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Post by kome » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:45 AM UTC

milankragujevic wrote: post #3

I knew of that 9 months ago, but nobody was interested so I dropped it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329825

thank you for the previous post, really. it's frustrating to be ignored when you are right.

a lot of this industry (in particular web and mobile technologies) survives thanks to systematic privacy violations. it's nice to keep the eyes wide open.

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Post by blitzo » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:45 AM UTC

It is kind of ironic for me to think my perception of Android as same as Windows as major malware distributor despite it is based on Linux. Android is now fast becoming Windows XP of mobile.

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Post by henriklied » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 7:46 AM UTC

milankragujevic wrote: post #3

I knew of that 9 months ago, but nobody was interested so I dropped it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329825

Wow, this is interesting. I’ve sent you an email.