If you did, the phone-home beacons are super easy to spot and block. Appliance manufacturers don’t think of their products as computers so they don’t bother to hide anything.
On the flip side, it seems that laptop manufacturers think of their products as appliances, so they don’t even hide their beacons either.
Spoiler: Acer ties it’s proprietary fan control drivers to"NitroSense" that loves to beacon home with your geo location and serial numbers. If you insert a random python webserver for it to connect to, it will just blurt out its API keys for the Acer CMS. Connecting back to their CMS manually allows you to inject as much shit data into their CMS as you want.
If you did, the phone-home beacons are super easy to spot and block. Appliance manufacturers don’t think of their products as computers so they don’t bother to hide anything.
On the flip side, it seems that laptop manufacturers think of their products as appliances, so they don’t even hide their beacons either.
Spoiler: Acer ties it’s proprietary fan control drivers to"NitroSense" that loves to beacon home with your geo location and serial numbers. If you insert a random python webserver for it to connect to, it will just blurt out its API keys for the Acer CMS. Connecting back to their CMS manually allows you to inject as much shit data into their CMS as you want.