It's dismayingly easy to make an app that turns a smart-speaker into a password-stealing listening device and sneak it past the manufacturer's security checks

Some friends have the Alexa thing, it consistently reinforces by desire to never own one, or anything like it; it constantly mis-hears instructions, or doesn’t hear them at all, or doesn’t play the music asked for.
I’d have Sonos-type speakers around, the Ikea lamp version is very appealing, but those are app-controlled, not voice, or ‘smart’.

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