Oh, yes I agree. If you want to be malicious, you can think of many ways to go around it. You could use a physical switch that kills the circuit to the microphone and say “see? it’s physically impossible to listen if the microphone wires are not even connected!” and then hide a second microphone inside the speaker chassis. But unless you’re a valuable target, I prefer my Occam’s razor to be the appropriate kind of sharpness.
Oh, they definitely want to be malicious. Afterall, their livelyhood depends on it, and there’s are literal tons of money on the table for knowing exactly the things that people don’t want to be known about them. That’s why I referred to them as pedos in kindergarten: they look like a data hoarding company, swim like a data hoarding company and quack like a data hoarding company. They might play it nice for now and test waters, but ultimately, what they are after all along is your personal data and especially private data. No way you can bet on them not acting upon this temptation.
Oh, yes I agree. If you want to be malicious, you can think of many ways to go around it. You could use a physical switch that kills the circuit to the microphone and say “see? it’s physically impossible to listen if the microphone wires are not even connected!” and then hide a second microphone inside the speaker chassis. But unless you’re a valuable target, I prefer my Occam’s razor to be the appropriate kind of sharpness.
Oh, they definitely want to be malicious. Afterall, their livelyhood depends on it, and there’s are literal tons of money on the table for knowing exactly the things that people don’t want to be known about them. That’s why I referred to them as pedos in kindergarten: they look like a data hoarding company, swim like a data hoarding company and quack like a data hoarding company. They might play it nice for now and test waters, but ultimately, what they are after all along is your personal data and especially private data. No way you can bet on them not acting upon this temptation.