Amazon plans to share your internet with your neighbors. This is how you opt out

[thackney]

Amazon plans to share your internet with your neighbors. This is how you opt out
https://www.click2houston.com/tech/2021/06/01/amazon-plans-to-share-your-internet-with-your-neighbors-this-is-how-you-opt-out/
 June 1, 2021

Amazon Sidewalk will be a shared network that is supposed to help customer devices work better, both in and around your home, like outside lighting that may be wi-fi enabled. If you lose connectivity your device would just switch to a neighbor’s signal so the service wouldn’t be disrupted. When you turn on a new device, it will ask you if you want to join the Amazon Sidewalk network but all of the Amazon devices you own now will automatically be included on June 8, unless you opt out.

How will Amazon Sidewalk work?

Your Amazon Alexa, Echo, Ring doorbell, security cameras and Tile trackers will automatically enroll in the sidewalk system on June 8....

[Cyber Liberty]

FTA:

How do you opt out?

If you don’t want your Amazon devices to share a slice of your internet, this is how you opt out:

Open the Alexa app.
Open “More.”
Select “Settings.”
Select “Account Settings.”
Select “Amazon Sidewalk.”
Disable “Amazon Sidewalk.”

I've already done this.

[roamer_1]

It is a good idea - a mesh is hard to take down, and I like the idea of distributed networking... Kinda like torrent in that you might bust things up and send em across multiple hubs for a faster and more reliable transmission...

But NOBODY gets inside my router. Nobody. If the router could do mesh outside of my LAN, using what I am not using, well I would be inclined to join that.

[Free Vulcan]

But NOBODY gets inside my router. Nobody. If the router could do mesh outside of my LAN, using what I am not using, well I would be inclined to join that.

Anyone who gives access to their router is a fool. I've read at least one article on here alone where someone got their router hacked, then the perp used it to download child porn.

The Feds then were tracking that and initially arrested the wrong guy.

Anyone with access and computer skills could spoof it to make you look like a pedophile, terrorist, hacker, or anything else they wanted to.

[roamer_1]

Anyone who gives access to their router is a fool. I've read at least one article on here alone where someone got their router hacked, then the perp used it to download child porn.

The Feds then were tracking that and initially arrested the wrong guy.

Anyone with access and computer skills could spoof it to make you look like a pedophile, terrorist, hacker, or anything else they wanted to.

That's right... Like I said, outside my LAN... If it were common for routers to lend what is idle to a local pool, networks would be super redundant, WIFI could hop... There would be virtually no dead spots. And it would be local redundancy, not merely redundant. And that would be very hard to wreck.