(Or how your smart home might outsmart you.) When I was in grade school, I read a Reader’s Digest article with a headline burned into memory: “Ssssh… The Fridge Can Hear Us.” At the time, it wasn’t a dystopian sci-fi warning. It was about superstition—Filipino, Chinese, take your pick. The idea that if you spoke too loudly about good fortune
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Or: How Cold War paranoia accidentally gave you email, Netflix, and a Wi-Fi router that only works when you’re not watching. Once Upon a Time, in the Age of Rotary Phones and Mushroom Clouds… In the 1960s, the United States military was asking the kinds of questions that keep generals awake at night: “How do we issue orders if Washington’s