Oh, the dystopia.
Oh, the dystopia.
More realistically and already in the wild: ad fingerprinting.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/there...
And the power switch on the power strip it's attached to if, for some reason, I decide to suspect that the hard switch on the device is a lie.
The same reason why the fact that I'm worried enough sometimes (e.g., major lightning storms) to unplug various electronics does not mean I choose not to own such electronics in the first place: sometimes isn't all the time, and both the costs of potential vulnerability and the benefit of features (and thus the balance between those two things) can shift with context.
Though, in reality, I'm never actually that worried about my Google Home, I just recognize that this there are adequate existing hardware-based solutions that, should I be concerned at some time—which I can imagine being, though I haven't been—an adequate mitigation exists that doesn't involve not possessing the device.
With a closed-source platform, I can't have that.
I have a cell-phone in my pocket, and I am concerned about the privacy implications. Android is free software, but the driver blobs are not. I do hate that I am compromising for that. Hopefully, there will be more affordable options like the librem phone in the near future.