Does Sonos share user data with its servers in China?

  • 27 February 2023
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From investigative journalist Brian Krebs:

Little Snitch reported today that Sonos tried to connect to a domain called tmp.sonoschina.com. I can't find much information about this domain, other than it is China-based but is out of a US ARIN IP block.

 

This is the first time I've seen something like that from Sonos. I said no thanks. I get that the hardware is made an assembled there, but this makes me worry maybe the data's going there, too.

 

A screenshot of the Little Snitch firewall for Mac OS asking whether to allow Sonos to connect to sonoschina.com.

https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/109932539931470329 

 


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Not seeing my Sonos devices connect to it but my controllers are doing so, see image.

Address info:  

https://myip.ms/info/whois/47.99.90.125/k/611693039/website/tmpfiles.sonoschina.com

 

 

V curious about this

It would be helpful for some transparency on this China data issue from SONOS.

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I’m not seeing the S2 app doing this on Windows. And I KNOW my apps don’t do this!

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