https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203389 Note that netguard (a vpn firewall solution) is not active at boot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203389 Note that netguard (a vpn firewall solution) is not active at boot. It gets kicked well after wifi comes up. My tcpdump tests showed a few seconds of traffic before it started blocking. This is a known thing, but it is time enough that I watched loads of traffic phone home on boot. Another thing, is that the wifi connectivity test/beacon has been modified to point to the boox store url. This is not blocked by a VPN, and thus, anything could be happening. To be fair, once netguard was up and running, it did block all but that, and I ran tcpdump over several days watching. Of course, if you want any part of the Boox ecosystem, you have to let it phone home.