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  • That’s pretty wild man. Reminds me of a while ago, a lot of people got busted locally for selling loaded Kodi boxes at the flea market. I bought one out of mild curiosity from a greasy individual who I could tell wasn’t the front man of the operation. Anyway, I booted it an ran wireguard against it. I don’t have the skill this guy does in the video, but what I did see were a lot…a lot…of sketchy Chinese ip addresses. So, i shut it down and it resides in the junk bin.

    I found this interesting: https://safereddit.com/r/vSeeBox/comments/1hhibu0/vseebox_for_real/

    Particularly this comment:

    u/Fun-Device-9702
    Apr 14 '25
    
    I got a couple strange emails that were definably spam after hooking one up, so I wonder if there some kind of back door program working on these.
    








  • Well, the article did go on to provide better stats once they changed out the panel and battery:

    Since then, the uptime has been 100% (March to September 2020), even though we have added a lot of content by making the website multilingual. This is due to the larger (brand new) battery but also to the better orientation of the smaller solar panel. The battery’s capacity will decline over time, so the higher storage capacity will make it last longer. If the uptime remains 100% through the winter 2020/2021, we will probably downgrade to a 20W solar panel.