I wonder how thoroughly Amazon has these buttoned up against 3rd party favors firmware.
I’m one of those old fashioned, entitled, jerks who expects bugging my house to be handled for me by hostile intelligence agencies, not at my own expense; but the Dot hardware is pretty interesting, if it isn’t tivoized to hell and back.
https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/blogs/amazon-echo-dot-teardown/4814734f90dd421fb5f6ecd9a82fbf16