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Some Google Home Speakers downloading massive amounts of data in the background (9to5google.com)

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bugs happen. Here's an LG coffee maker uploading 1TB in 10 days: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/it-pro-says-his-parents-keurig-smart-coffee-maker-sent-1tb-of-data-over-their-wi-fi-in-10-days-it-saturated-an-access-point-on-its-own-but-he-says-most-of-the-traffic-never-left-the-home-network

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Not a bug, lol.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

All coverage of that incident says it was mostly LAN traffic. It was a bug in the network stack.

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