[–] ronis_yorgos ago
A mistake, or, as they say it nowadays, a glitch.
Like the 50.000 thousand reviews deleted from rottentomatoes, due to a... glitch.
https://unvis.it/https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/23/nokia-explains-phone-data-in-china/ :
2019-03-23 | Nokia says its phones sent data to China by mistake
[–] skruf ago
The software engineer: "I just looked away from the screen a few seconds to talk with a collegua, and suddenly my fingers just typed something like 'socket open <chinese.ip>', 'send some shit', 'close soocket'. I couldn't help it, I did not notice it at all!"