You joke, but I guarantee there's a market. Consider health insurance companies that see an opportunity to charge everyone more unless they can prove their good brushing habits via app data.
Options are great, this is what drives the Linux community to come up with great solutions!
That said... Kate is an easy winner for me.
They misspelled "backdoors."
I love avocados, but can't say I've ever liquified them then drizzle on toast...
I thought this was gonna be some animorphs shenanigans from the thumbnail
It's just an NTP pool. The device is trying to update it's time. Likely it made many other requests to other servers when this one didn't work.
Maintaining up to date lists of anything is a game of whack a mole, so you're always going to get weird results.
If you're actually unsure, pcap the traffic on your pfsense box and see for yourself. NTP is an unencrypted protocol, so tshark or Wireshark will have no problem telling you all about it.
That said, I'd still agree with the other poster about local integration with home assistant and just block that sucker from the Internet.
If you have any question on truth worthiness, you can flash stock openwrt on them. You just lose out on their proprietary webUI and pre installed plugins. I believe their firmware is public on GitHub though.
That all sounds correct to me. The random port you're seeing in the logs is a high port, often referred to as an ephemeral port, and it is common for source ports. All good there.
This is pedantic, but there are indeed capacitors there. They're all surface mount components, so they don't look like the caps that people typically talk about replacing, and they likely aren't what caused it to fail. Anything labeled on the board with a C## is likely a SMD capacitor.
😆 God the judiciary is fucked up...
It's not about user-led synergy. The personal data market is slurped up by those that already have and are building correlations. Just because a user didn't report anything to their insurer doesn't mean an insurer sure as shit isn't going to want the data if they can link it to the user whatsoever, so long as it will make them more money.
This is hypothetical, of course, but it's the way the market of data brokers works.