I think it's less snark for me. There is a somewhat realistic concern that we're buying our own surveilance state one piece at a time. These corporations are v

I think it's less snark for me. There is a somewhat realistic concern that we're buying our own surveilance state one piece at a time. These corporations are very powerful, and we're inviting their surveilance tools into our homes without IMO a great guarantee of what's done with our data. They also tend to have a pretty cushy relationship with governments. And even where they don't, governments are able and usually willing to compromise these devices for their own purposes. That exists on a specrum from law enforcement asking for data, to the NSA and similar using security vulernabilities they buy or develop. This device in particular is probably not a big deal for the above, but it's one more for the pile.