they do "raise the stakes" in the film that ultimately plays on (the legitimate imo) fear of the security of devices in your home, and the services that you use. What I think this comes back to is also #WhyAreYouHere on Mastodon.
Make technology to serve you, not you to serve technology and the core component of that is trust. The whole #DepreciateTwitter thing is because Twitter serves twitters bottom line, they lost my trust ages ago but I thought I had nowhere to go.