To add, I’ve actually opened up my 2011 MacBook Pro and physically removed the wire connecting the microphone and video camera from the device. I use TOR, for

To add, I’ve actually opened up my 2011 MacBook Pro and physically removed the wire connecting the microphone and video camera from the device. I use TOR, for everything. Even basic browsing. I’ll take the performance hit any day. I also disable JS on 90% of sites I visit. I’ve stayed at an iPhone 6S that I could jailbreak to observe outgoing and incoming network information and block IPs where necessary, and redirect to TOR in the background. I don’t keep Android devices and let all of my friends know about all the serious security risks involved, and beg them to at least get a refurbished iPhone instead. I have friends in the psychedelic scene who literally text each other openly about LSD like total idiots when Signal is free. I have friends who have ended up in prison, not even jail, from this kind of shit. I talk about psychedelics, I talk about occultism, I talk about revolutionary political ideas, and I talk about private details like my sex life, comfortably, at home, as do many, many of my friends. Having one of these devices in their home alone could be a ticket to jail or prison for them. You’re telling me there are advantages for this shit? Because you can turn your lights on without having to grab your phone, or, God forbid, stand up and go flick a light switch, it’s worth it to have corporations listening in to all your shit? You’ve obviously never had to watch a best friend dragged off by police due to getting nabbed by information grabbed through technology. Good for you! Have a cookie. Some people are involved in progressing society beyond its pathetic, self destructive status-quo, to move the world forward, and we need privacy to do that. If you wanna live your little work, wife, and kids life, where you’d never be concerned about a single thing you say while your Echo is around, go for it. Myself? I actually intend to change the world while I’m on it. So no, I’m not alright with anyone listening in to what I’m doing.