I wish it were being done by the government. If only it was some supervillain using mind control, slowly acquiring all these weird and ubiquitous credentials so they could spy on me...<p>While that would be bad, there&#x27;s a way to fix this. We can expose the supervillain, fix the problem, and <i>TA-DA!</i> everything&#x27;s good again.<p>What I actually suspect is that the typical person is just dumb enough (and hey, I&#x27;m not doing the superiority complex thing here, pretty sure it applies to me too) to let this happen accidentally. We don&#x27;t need to be manipulated or brainwashed or tricked. We&#x27;ll do this because Amazon will list the bad device 2 cents cheaper, and the companies making the good stuff anticipate this and don&#x27;t bother to make the 2-cents-more-expensive-but-better one.<p>It helps that people are oblivious to how damning metadata is. One could easily foresee being able to tell who is adulterous just by when the front door opens and closes, for instance.