“Mysterious”? It’s eight there in the name.

Absolute horseshit. Bulbs don't have microphones. If they did, any junior security hacker could sniff out the traffic and post about it for cred. The article quickly pivots to TP-Link and other devices exposing certificates. That has nothing to do with surveillance and everything to do with incompetent programming. Then it swings over to Matter and makes a bunch of incorrect assertion I don't even care to correct. Also, all the links are to articles on the same site, every single one of which is easily refutable crap. Yes, there are privacy tradeoffs with connected devices, but this article is nothing but hot clickbait garbage.

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This is exciting and terrifying. I am NOT looking forward to the future anymore.

… it was

The new Pebble watches look interesting. Relatively basic, but long battery life (they promise) and open-source operating system.