security You have only 10 days to opt out of Amazon Sidewalk

[Future Sensors]

Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

Amazon's experiment wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs.

Dan Goodin - 5/29/2021, 9:10 PM

If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device, you have only 10 days to opt out of an experiment that leaves your personal privacy and security hanging in the balance.

Read full story at Ars Technica:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...matically-share-your-internet-with-neighbors/

 

[noneisnone]

people who use Alexa don't care much about security or privacy in the first place ^^

 

[HotKey]

Have to love how this stuff is assumed "by default" and the onus is on the user to opt-out, rather than to opt-in. Particularly for a paying service. Thank goodness for good old fashioned light switches, cd players and door bells.

Still have a gripe with the auto-checked "stay logged in" every single website uses nowadays, even Namepros, as if it's assumed that indeed, we want to stay logged in.

 

[noneisnone]

they are basically stealing your bandwidth i don't care if it is 1 KB it is theft.

 

[J Sokol]

Welcome to the parlor said the spider to the fly.