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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You kidding? That's literally a troijan horse.

Imagine you buy a new showerhead and it came with a hidden camera sending data to the seller. The camera is enabled by default, with toggle hidden and difficult to find.

This is what it is when you enable telemetry by default.