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It's time for Clark Stinks later where you get to share where you feel I have failed you,

let you down, miss the mark, miss lead, whatever it is, you had to hear Clark Stinks later.

So this could be a Clark Stinks. When I go to CES each year, the World's Largest Trade Show,

the formerly known as Consumer Electronics Show, I in the last few years have shown with great

enthusiasm all these gadgets you can have in your home that all connect through your Wi-Fi network

and allow you to access information on your smartphone and all the rest.

And my wife is like many other people and that she's like, I don't want that camera in our house.

I don't want that device here. How do you know nobody's listening? How do you know nobody's watching?

And the answer is, well, she's not wrong. In fact, she may be right. A lot of the

smart home gadgets, particularly cameras, are things that have been so many cases where

hackers have been able to hack in because of the lack of us putting good security on these things

on the rest. So at my wife's urging, we only have cameras pointing out. We only have outside

cameras. We have no inside cameras. So if anyone wants to hack into our outside cameras, go for it.

We do have, you may remember that we did a test in our family of Amazon's Echo devices

and Google's home devices. And I use my family as kind of like a focus group. We had them side-by-side

and my family ended up gravitating to the Google home. So now we have a lot of Google home devices

in our house. And we're relying on Google to run proper security on those. But you also have the

issue that Google knows everything is going on just like Amazon. If you have the Echo devices,

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