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It seems a little irresponsible for an academic publication to make a claim like

> always listening, recording, and possibly saving sensitive personal information

without any evidence to support it. I get that they're just setting up context for their device, but they're also making some pretty serious (and widely disproven) accusations.

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> ... and possibly saving sensitive personal in- formation [32, 55, 38, 26].

They left 4 related articles in the publication please read the actual paper before criticizing it.

> and widely disproven

I personally never heard of it. Any evidence?

All of these devices have been reverse-engineered and packet sniffed to death, and no one has ever produced any evidence that they're doing anything other than what it says on the box.

While I do appreciate that the cited sources in their paper, I would have appreciated actual information security papers rather than mainstream media articles.

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