Hong Kong media: Red rice Update automatically upload data to Singapore server

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Sina Science and technology news Beijing time September 9 morning, Hong Kong Media commissioned information security experts and security company Nexusguard after the test reported that the updated millet red meter 1s mobile phone, every half hour will be a server in Singapore automatically upload information. Millet responded that with the server connection only for customers to update the calendar, weather and other systems, not related to privacy.

Last month, the information security company said that Millet 3 and red meters 1S two mobile phones will be sent to the user information to the millet in Beijing, after the millet issued a statement, and to provide users with updates, said the installation of the update can be "ease of use." This update package applies to all millet handsets.

After the release of Millet, the Hong Kong media commissioned information security experts for the Hong Kong version of the 1S mobile phone for a 13-day monitoring test, red rice for testing is a new machine, immediately after Kaifeng connected to test the establishment of a dedicated WiFi network, in order to monitor whether the mobile phone uploaded data to the Internet.

During the monitoring period, the mobile phone has been kept idle, only occasionally take photos or new contacts, such as do not involve the Internet and other movements, nor register and open any cloud or Internet services.

Experts found that the red Rice mobile phone will be automatically uploaded to the server in Beijing every morning before the update package is installed. According to IP, the server registered as "Beijing Blue Communication Technology Limited liability Company", the company is mainly engaged in China's Internet transmission work, for many government departments and state-owned enterprises to provide services, this May more with the People's Daily in Beijing to set up a data center. Red meter uploaded mobile phone data are all encrypted, file size ranging from 893B to 30KB, experts said this estimate, is transmitted may include the Address book and other text materials.

Experts for Red rice installation Millet released the update package, found that the phone has no more information to Beijing, but instead of automatically to every half hour mobile data uploaded to the Amazon server in Singapore. The uploaded data is also encrypted, the file is smaller than before the update, ranging from 143B to 4KB, but the upload interval is shortened.

reported that the Amazon server is a public cloud server for any person to rent. Insiders pointed out that the server to facilitate the hidden identity, in recent years, attracted a lot of internet hackers rented.

Finally, the Hong Kong Media also commissioned the information security company Nexusguard Consulting, the red meter mobile phone's original operating system to remove, reinstall by the third party design of operating systems, and then monitor mobile activity found that the red rice phone has not uploaded information to the Beijing Blue News or Amazon Singapore's servers, Instead, upload the data to the designer's server once a day. Hong Kong Media thus concluded that the previous transmission of user data to the Millet server, millet is installed in the mobile phone system caused.

Millet in response to this report said that the installation of the update package, no longer transmits the user's personal data to the millet server; As for the phone and Millet server connection, for calendar, weather, software updates and system reminders and other Internet services, does not involve user privacy. (Lin)