Smart Gadgets Shouting into the Void

Millions of oblivious smart home consumers are currently burdened with unmaintained Android companion apps cheerfully blabbing telemetry to vanished backend servers. Same story different day, with smart hardware begging for interception and device hijacking because maintaining software is clearly too much effort for modern vendors. We might protect ourselves if updates actually existed, but in this miserable landscape of digital neglect, we merely await the inevitable takeover.