We're long past the days when you had to be paranoid and 'computer illiterate' to believe computing devices couldn't pick up speech. For a decade or more vendo

We're long past the days when you had to be paranoid and 'computer illiterate' to believe computing devices couldn't pick up speech. For a decade or more vendors have been shipping voice recognition technology onto consumer devices, with less and less friction to operate, actively attempting to make it part of very common device interactions. Now the only questions are: A. Do these omnipresent hot mics have adequate access control? B. How many parties have access to them, and C. Are these parties worthy of being trusted with such responsibility?