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Notes by Max Knyazev

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Everything that would usually end up scattered across different platforms and chats lives here.

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  • What matters here is the content, not the frontend.
  • This is not a resume or a portfolio. It makes more sense to treat this site as an open library where I share my thoughts, ideas, and projects.
  • If anything on this site turns out to be useful to you, then building and publishing it was worth it.

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Smart home security

May 24, 2026

Does a smart home with Alice transmit data to intelligence agencies?

This article appeared as a kind of response to the hysteria around the security of the personal Internet of things and the concept of the “Smart Home” in particular. Scrolling through the comments under many videos and articles on the topics of voice assistants, automation, smart speakers, cameras, sensors, sockets and other similar technologies, I repeatedly came across statements about intruders, wiretapping of conversations by various services, total surveillance and the fact that now literally every device in the apartment is a potential employee in uniform

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