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Smart home security
May 24, 202625 min read
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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