How we do these, and what a dossier is not

We do not test devices. Nobody here has worn every cage on the market, and pretending otherwise would be the easiest lie on the internet to tell. So there is no rating on any of these pages, and there never will be. A number we made up would look like evidence, and it would not be any.

What we do instead is read the public record: published specifications and the maker's own documentation, security research where it exists, recalls and safety notices, and the disclosure history around a product. Then we say what that record implies. The implication is clearly marked as our editorial reading, kept separate from the documented part, so you can disagree with the reading while still using the facts.

Where the record is thin, we say so rather than filling the gap with tone. And where a product has changed since the documented events, we say that too, because a company patching something is a normal outcome and we are not in a position to verify what any device does today.