> Sure. but this is a Network Attached Storage product, and the user explicitly chose to use network functions (domains, http), it's not the same category of issue.

Is it fair to say that you're saying that it should be considered normal to expect that network-attached devices (designed and sold by reliable, aboveboard companies) connected to (V)LANs with no Internet access will be configured to use computers that use their management interfaces (whether GUI, CLI, or API) as "jumpboxes" to attempt to phone home with information about their configuration and other such "telemetry"?

Do carefully note what I'm asking: whether it should be considered normal to do this, rather than considering it to be somewhat outrageous. It's obviously possible to do this in the same way that it's obviously possible to do things like scratch the paint on a line of cars parked on the street, or adulterate food and medicine.