Aside from the risk of breaking things, there's the risk of data leaks and enabling surveillance through negligence or intentional back doors. Hardware and sof

Aside from the risk of breaking things, there's the risk of data leaks and enabling surveillance through negligence or intentional back doors. Hardware and software companies have a story of implementing anti-user features in very shady ways (ie silent update to T&C allowing the org to track and share data with third parties and/or brokers). I don't care if my smart Philips light bulb shares all its data with god knows who. My router? that's the device that manages all connections including critical ones. I want it to be impeccable and transparent. That's why I refuse to buy from manufactures that require a could account like Eeroo or that require weird connections to work properly like Tenda (a friend had a Tenda mesh and it wouldn't work if we blocked connections to Baidu, Weibo and others)