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$17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address

gizmomelb

well I'm curious if after this ''alert'' about the app sending data to China, if anyone has disassembled the apps (or is it the phone OS itself sending the data?) to see just what and where it is sending data?

ie: it's one thing to cry about a security issue, but where is the investigation and backup to support the allegation please?

I'm certainly not going to install a third party APK on my mobile and quite frankly some of the mediatek smartwatch apps on google play look dodgy as well, so I'd prefer to find out more info first.

If the watch OS itself is the culprit then bring on a self build OS so I can flash the watch and be reasonably secure in the knowledge that it isn't doing anything dodgy.

thank you.

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