Thank you everyone and thank you for the links! Based on all info, I decided to wait for Asus’s statement until the end of April. I hope my current phone will survive until then. In case of no good news, I will try to find a OnePlus Nord CE2 somewhere, or may go with a good used one. If that doesn’t work out either, then maybe an Xperia. Or Nothing 2. Or Pixel… We’ll see.

if you run a whois on the domain, it turns out it belongs to mailjet. they are a big service provider for bulk emails, notifications, stuff like that.

my guess is this is their cdn or something similar. you can see the “1wy1y” string in the URL path as well as a sub-domain. that’s most likely the customer ID or “tenant id” for the gov agency inside the mailjet cloud. also guessing that “tplimg” could stand for “template image” or similar, indicating that they have an email template with this image always being there. which makes sense if it’s a logo.

as for the curl call, i tried to open the url in a browser, but it just sends an empty response, that’s why you don’t see a content-length header. i guess mailjet checks where the url is being called from, either with user-agent or some custom headers or whatever, so it only loads if you actually open the email. this prevents unnecessary traffic costs for them.

i don’t think there is anything wrong here, just laziness on the gov agency’s side. they could have created some sub-domain that is an alias pointing to this mess. it wouldn’t cost anything.

https://github.com/zlatinb/muwire