One thing that consistently flashed over my mind as I watched the XBox One console announcement is how creepy the features were.
It's full of proprietary technologies that nobody outside Microsoft knows about or really fully understands. It's always connected to the internet. It has a 1080p camera that can track your motion and a microphone that can catch audio from your entire living room and recognize who is saying what. It also recognizes your appearance and is, thus, able to track you. On top of all this it can connect to tons of different devices in your household to control them when given voice commands.
A virus on this... or heck the CIA or something using a doubtlessly built in back-door, could suddenly turn this machine into a real version HAL 3000 or something ridiculous like that. The technology is definitely there. And if you think you won't be vulnerable to viruses - it's running x86_64 on the Windows NT kernel and it is using Internet Explorer. It'll be struck by all the same viruses that can strike Windows 8 Pro because all the same attack vectors are present.
This console really makes me feel unsafe. I don't want it in my household. Am I just being paranoid or is there legitimacy to what I'm saying?
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