You need to adjust your tin foil hat. I took my droid, my tablet, and my laptop, and there really isn't that much to worry about if you follow basic security practices, like not sending any plaintext passwords, closing any ports or services you don't need, and not doing financial transactions or other very confidential things there. And I'm sure the assorted 3-letter agencies already know all about anyone they are interested in.

You forgot IR and UV.

Off topic, but I'm also still waiting for one with integrated GPS position AND orientation, somewhere in the general neighborhood of the consumer price range.

They just don't advertise those passes...and you have to be a major corporation or senator to get them.

Why would people do such a thing? I wipe pirated windows installs so I can put linux on.

The common adage of a chain being only as strong as the weakest link is very true in security. It may seem like the potential for misuse is minimal, but security-/hacker-minded individuals work mostly by finding ways that seemingly unimportant problems affect other things they are connected to. Some of the other comments talk about a DoS-type of attack that can be performed by flooding this vulnerable communication channel; what if it is discovered that this type of DoS attack could, for example, specifically target the braking system?

So... Amazon will know everywhere I crossed a word out and replaced it with "goat" in my copy of the kama sutra? Wonder what this will do for that area of their page that recommends products to me based on things I've previously done on their site...