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Xiaomi smartphones create TCPDUMP.PCAP files. Why?

10 pointsby harvieover 3 years ago
I have Xiaomi Redmi 8 and i&#x27;ve noticed strange activity in files matching following pattern:<p>&#x2F;storage&#x2F;emulated&#x2F;0&#x2F;MIUI&#x2F;debug_log&#x2F;common&#x2F;tcpdump.pcap*<p>(MIUI is proprietary GUI that ships exclusively with Xiaomi phones)<p>These are unencrypted pcap files which seem to be regulary rotated. Can be opened in wireshark and contain actual dumps of my personal traffic.<p>(luckily most of it is TLS encrypted, but RNG in their kernel might be compromised as well...)<p>Is your phone doing this too?

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ksajover 3 years ago
This shows up on a Google search:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xiaomi.eu&#x2F;community&#x2F;threads&#x2F;suggestion-disable-wifi-wlan_logs.56132&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xiaomi.eu&#x2F;community&#x2F;threads&#x2F;suggestion-disable-wifi-...</a>