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by Piskvorrr 1646 days ago
Still, even if not linked through purchase, the device will communicate back to a number controlled by you, fairly directly. A lot of obvious and hard-to-mask effort to emulate something that's provided as a COTS package with far harder tracking back to you.

TL;DR: this was possible previously, for fairly determined and advanced users; now it's available to anyone on a whim.