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I'm in the "never permit these devil devices in my home" camp. A common rebuttal is "your phone is always listening, how is an Echo / Google Home / etc differen
by millstone 8y ago
I'm in the "never permit these devil devices in my home" camp. A common rebuttal is "your phone is always listening, how is an Echo / Google Home / etc different?"
Well this answers that question: security! If my phone could be remotely rebooted by someone on the same Wifi network, it would be considered an enormous vulnerability. But in this thread we see lots of apologetics: "Well, the LAN is assumed secure..."
This reaffirms my decision. Offline-only, or no thanks!
- ehsankia 8y agoThe Chromecast model is intentionally designed so that anyone on your local network can play anything they want on your Chromecast, including full blast volume porn. Considering that, how is being able to reboot your Chromecast any worse? The comparison to your phone doesn't hold. For one, your phone connects to all sorts of networks, whereas these devices are on local home network only. Second, Chromecasts are inherently shared and communal devices, whereas phones are personal.