Buying tech from Amazon is a lottery. Going blind is the best way to describe it. Their descriptions are skimpy at best and anything technical, rare. As is my custom. Argos is arguably more descriptive, E-Bay certainly. But when the only place the chosen featured item is via them.............

On the plus side their own packaging would appear to be totally re-recyclable. Brown paper stuffing & paper adhesive sealing tape. Or maybe it was just that the last delivery came from the Lichtenstein depot.

But on the OP - Alexa is a spy in your living room. And currently a spy with a cackle. And who wouldn't take a tilt at the biggest web player for potentially big rewards? Like a slice of your information? With a little Trojan or Zombie in their server farm somewhere - someone would pay to slow them down, (or pay to remove the malware). And it doesn't have to be Russian government, the St Petersburg mafioski are real and real clever.

And an Amazon accessible door lock - Jeeeeeeeze. An open door kinda security. But people will buy into it and play that lottery until one day................

"Include me out" Louis B Mayre