there was a post a while ago about amazon ring and other devices setting up a mesh network for themselves using your wifi.
I still do not think this is a bad thing necessarily as long as the functionality is documented and user controllable.
the main problem is people not understanding what they and their devices are doing.
I am not saying people are stupid, but they are uneducated.
I consider myself uneducated on many subjects but still I increase my own education every day.
https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/2016/01/13/guess-what-requires-150-million-lines-of-code/
I understand systems like this, but there is no way in hell I could ever get access to the source code, let alone audit it all.
I can borrow a tech2 or I have a copy of dis/inpa depending on which car I need to mess with, but that only exposes what the factory considers necessary.
I considered a Tesla, but my risk tolerance is low.
I was talking to Jeff Ashby CSO of Blue Origin about this once, I would not jump out of a perfectly good airplane, while that does not bother him, and he blasts his ass off into space..
That would be the “sidewalk” platform.
‘user controllable.”
You actually believe that you can control/limit/etc. their access to your electronics and tech., etc.? If so, you are very gullible.