Is there any special reason to worry about your Echo being backdoored rather than your PC or laptops with their frequently built-in microphones? Heck even my co

Is there any special reason to worry about your Echo being backdoored rather than your PC or laptops with their frequently built-in microphones? Heck even my computer monitors seem to have microphones today. I'm sure my PC is a lot easier to break into than the Echo. Depending on how the Echo works, it might not be so easy to back door. It's not likely to be running any system services that can be connected to remotely. It's a pretty simple device without a lot going on internally (compared to a phone or PC). I'd be far more worried about complex electronics like a television or PC being backdoored than an Echo. Furthermore, because these other devices are an order of magnitude more popular, and actually store people's data there's far more incentive for malicious actors of all kinds to develop back doors for them. The Echo is actually a pretty uninteresting target. It doesn't store any data. Maybe you can break into it remotely and use it to listen, but that's it. That's all. You cannot, just by breaking in, sift over a vast trove of preexisting information, like you can with a PC. You'll never steal someone's documents, or read their email, or steal their passwords. Plus if you get into someone's PC or phone you can probably turn on a mic and record them too! I think the Echo honestly has pretty limited value on average as an attack target. It will be low in the priority list for attackers to target. Regardless, if any of these devices are backdoored and recording me, then it will be trivially easy to detect that unexpected network activity. I am far less worried about my Echo than my PC, because I expect my Echo to have zero network activity except when I'm using it. Since it does one thing, it has no excuse for unexpected network activity. It's very easy for me to monitor that network activity - built right into my wireless router. With my PC, who knows what the hell it's doing because some software decided to download an update. PCs and phones are not simple enough that you can expect them to have no network activity when idle. The Echo is simple enough to have no network activity when idle. Because the Echo would be so easy to detect if it were improperly recording you, I do not think a state actor would risk trying to observe anyone security-conscious in that way.