Re: ..or, perhaps, don't buy one in the first pla
Telephones can be disconnected from any network activity when not needed (a[e|i]r[o]plane mode) which precludes snoopage. Google's creepy voice "search" assistant can be lobotomised quite easily. Echo devices and Google's equivalent are on all the time and have no other utility than to listen for a "wake word" which, since you don't know how many there are, could be anything from "Alexa" to "fuck" and anything in between. Disable network traffic to and from those and they become just another useless lump of plastic with blinkenlichts or, at best, a rather expensive Bluetooth speaker. Basically, you're paying for a bug to be installed into your home.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
