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| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: Ranayna on May 31, 2021, 03:03:10 pm ---@tszaboo: Your neighbors Amazon Device will not be able to directly connect to your WiFi. Without a big undiscovered security flaw (or bad configuration of your WiFi), that would simply be impossible without giving the neigbor your WiFi password. --- End quote --- Yes, you are 100% right. Connect to your wifi through an Alexa/Echo device sharing it, and acting like a gateway. |
| Sal Ammoniac:
It's easy to opt out of this. Open the Alexa app and go to Settings->Account Settings->Amazon Sidewalk and set the slider to Disabled. |
| james_s:
It's ridiculous that you need to opt out, it should be opt in, but of course they know that almost nobody would do so. They are relying on most people being unaware of what is going on or too lazy to change the default setting. |
| madires:
There's another important question. If a rogue device connects via Sidewalk and its traffic passes my CPE, will the police knock on my door or at Amazon's? |
| Ranayna:
This is not a general internet connection that you could use to surf the web. This will only be usable to use *some* bare bones features of you Amazon Device. I suspect you can't really stream the video of your Ring camera at a paltry 80 KBit/s, but that is enough to still get alerts and the occasional compressed picture. In addition to that, it would be tremendously stupid on Amazons part if the connection would actually terminate on the router of the Sidewalk providing device. That would be noticed *very* quickly. It is therefore very likely that any Sidewalk connected device will directly "piggyback" on the connection to Amazon. For stuff like evidence purposes i can't see how it would matter how the data reaches Amazon's servers. That data is linked to the user id on that device. |
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