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

I wonder if it will ever really be possible to enjoy the science fiction essay of the voice-controlled system.

Maybe some things just aren’t ever going to work, for some mundane or malicious reason or other.

The “science fiction future” wasn’t ever a promise, and the whole genre is a subset of fantasy. And that’s fine.

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