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See, this bomb has no fuse. It's just an inert mass of TNT in a metal shell. You can bang on it with a hammer, nothing will happen! You can scoop some of the TNT and drop it into your fireplace, and it will burn peacefully. It's completely safe to keep it in your house.

Now prove it's never going to explode.

Do you notice how a perceived risk of something really bad happening skews people's perception?

There is an obvious risk of turning a smart speaker into a eavesdropping device, because

- It has to listen to your commands.

- It has to send the commands it hears to a computer outside your control for processing.

- It receives firmware updates which you also do not control, and cannot inspect.

A perfect moral hazard.

If I were to use a smart speaker, it must have open-source firmware which I can inspect and flash, and it, or its processing software on my home server / router / NAS, should be firewalled off the internet. That would be a proof.