[seferphier]

I agree. sadly, i doubt that many people would care about privacy concerns.

[eliasmacpherson]

an always on microphone, with fixed hardware and software, phoning home at regular intervals has a big target sign painted on it.

[walls]

Yeah it's insane to think that anyone would own some kind of device that has a microphone and camera accessible by a third party, right?

I mean what's next, they're going to make these things small enough that we can carry them everywhere?

[rbanffy]

As long as you control the device, there's nothing to fear.

Grab the source, build it and install it yourself. If your device doesn't support it, buy one that does. If you can't do it yourself, get used to be screwed in this brave new Orwelian world.