SPYing!...................
I notice that Jeff Bezos doesn’t share his wealth. He’s amassed quite a fortune.
But as a billion dollar Marxist he thinks you should share your wifi.
Comcast already does that. You can opt out.
From each according to ability, to each according to need.
I was a little surprised when the morning newsreader on our local NBC affiliate tv station editorialized on air after reading a story on this subject.
She actually cringed and said, “I don’t like this. Too creepy.”
= ZERO =
And I intend for it to stay that way. I don't need voice control spying on my life.
I have ROKU and my husband wanted a Firestick to go on his TV. I ordered one and installed it. It was way too slow and complicated for him. It has the Alexa voice in the remote. I showed him how good my ROKU works and he said order one of those for him. He loves the ROKU so we gave the Firestick to the granddaughter, after deregistering it of course. I’m glad he made that choice because I don’t trust anything like that from Amazon. The ROKU has more free channels and shows and doesn’t buffer the way the Firestick did. He can also watch live news, weather, etc. on the ROKU without the buffering that he had with the Firestick. We have satellite Internet that has some latency and didn’t like the Firestick on it. I’m glad it worked out that way.
Please, I want to give you money so you can spy on me...
get a small faraday cage.
My question would be encroachment. Would this tax the bandwidth of others and their devices? Such as one having tons of these devices in their home putting an unfair load on those who only have one device and almost no load?
Even those who have none of these devices? How does it keep the guy in between from having his WiFi tapped also creating unapproved access and burden on resources? Will they have the tech to steal resources even without a passkey?
I’ll pass.
Seems like theft of service for Amazon to resell everyone’s Internet that they pay for.
Most sure way to “opt out” is to never “opt in” by having amazon devices on your premises.
My WiFi access point and router offers a feature that lets me limit access by “foreign” devices: MAC filtering. It’s not perfect, but it stops the unsophisticated device user from latching onto my Internet bandwidth. That and a WAP password.
Oh, yeah, I just can’t wait for the knock on the door from some coppers about the kiddie porn being downloaded via my WiFi connection. Yeah, that sounds like a great way to start a day.
In addition, imagine the fun of some local Karen clogging the connection since everyone told her to bugger off with her non-stop polemics.
If I can’t pick and choose who participates, don’t expect me to contribute my private monies.
To be fair... you’re not really sharing your wifi more than the Bluetooth in your Amazon devices. Bluetooth runs on 900 MHz, so the area it covers is MUCH better than the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz from your wifi. In tight neighborhoods with quarter acre or smaller plots, this makes for a substantial mesh network. In rural areas, this won’t be very effective.
Still, fsck Amazon, esp. for making this an opt out vs. opt in product offering. No more Amazon devices in my home.
I don't have Alexa, so I need do nothing.
Why anyone would even entertain the idea of putting one of these spy devices in their homes escapes me.
I built my own home automation system based on Linux, using open source, with no 3rd party interface devices attached like Google, Amazon, Apple, etc. Top it off with encryption, VPN access, and simple commonsense security protocols, and these nitwits will need to work at it a bit to get in.
It’s not impossible to penetrate, but certainly difficult outside of state-sponsored hackers.
People should avoid these devices like the plague that they are.
The gist:
According to The Verge, users can disable “Amazon Sidewalk” by going into the setting section in their Amazon Alexa app. Users can also disable the feature in the Ring app by going into the Control Center and selecting “Sidewalk,” the outlet reported.