Matt Blaze on Nostr: Let's imagine a refrigerator that has a microphone and a speaker in it. To your ...

Let's imagine a refrigerator that has a microphone and a speaker in it. To your surprise, you discover that hears the word "thirsty", it plays an ad for Pepsi. Is that a wiretapping device?

There are multiple ways to implement this fridgevertiser. At one end of the spectrum, it sends all your audio to headquarters, where a team of underpaid snoops listen for the word "thirsty" and press the "play ad" button when they hear it. Pretty clearly interception of content.

But...