Amazon Sidewalk

[Thulian]

So amazon launched something called amazon sidewalk ( Without telling anyone )

Basically it turns every amazon echo dot or alexa thing into a wifi hotspot and everyone who has one shares wifi ( So if your wifi sucks and your neighbors is good you get a boost)

The best part is, they did it automatically without asking anyone if it was ok, and its pre enabled now with new device purchases.

They say its very secure, what do you think?

[HalflingSpergand]

Perfect for closet homosexuals to DL gay pornos

[Cassawary]

Xfinity did something like that with the public radio in they routers

[Jibartik]

isn't this the plot to the Kingsman?

[Cassawary]

isn't this the plot to the Kingsman?

Also that Christmas movie with Jason bateman and the silicon valley ginger

[Thulian]

Xfinity did something like that with the public radio in they routers

they have GUEST Login, so if you have an account you can sit outside someones house, login with your device and do bad stuff online on their modem. Sure after an investigation they will see it was guest login but imagine pinging bells at FBI Datacenters because you didnt turn off the xfinity wifi

tip : Shut off default modem WIFI and use a real wifi router with a PASSWORD

doubletip: change default password, my neighbor had linksys as his password for 10y not even kidding

[Evia]

Edit: misread post! Wrong item.

[feniin]

Who actually owns/uses an Amazon voice controlled product?

[kjs86z]

This is the way things are going. A customer of mine is trying to develop what can loosely be described as a peer-to-peer chipset for all mobile devices. They figure since 5G and beyond will suffer greatly due to atmospheric loss, the next best thing is going to be having all the devices be their own little signal repeaters.

[Thulian]

Who actually owns/uses an Amazon voice controlled product?

I wonder this myself, what kind of idiot would want a piece of technology listening in their house, as if it has some function let alone BUYING it lol

This is the way things are going. A customer of mine is trying to develop what can loosely be described as a peer-to-peer chipset for all mobile devices. They figure since 5G and beyond will suffer greatly due to atmospheric loss, the next best thing is going to be having all the devices be their own little signal repeaters.

Only a matter of time before they can broadcast commercials right into your brain with 5g

I personally think 5g should be illegal and we dont need it.

Also

Anyone notice how slow the internet is today? Russia hacked the fuck out of us again

[HalflingSpergand]

Gay pornos not DLing fast enough for your maintain erection? Def russia

[Knuckle]

So amazon launched something called amazon sidewalk ( Without telling anyone )

Basically it turns every amazon echo dot or alexa thing into a wifi hotspot and everyone who has one shares wifi ( So if your wifi sucks and your neighbors is good you get a boost)

The best part is, they did it automatically without asking anyone if it was ok, and its pre enabled now with new device purchases.

They say its very secure, what do you think?

Xfinity has been doing this for a longtime with modems, have to go through some obscure bullshit to disable it which I have done everytime I move to ensure they aren't leasing out my bandwidth rent free for their own gain. Supposedly doesn't count against it but I don't buy it.

[Jibartik]

I am confused about what this does or how it works.

Like, if someone jogging passes by my house listening to spotify, he links into my ring door cam to remain connected to the internet as he passes by my house, linking up with my neighbors smart toaster, etc etc?

[BarnabusCollins]

This reminds me of AOC.

[Swish]

I wouldn't touch this ever.

[douglas1999]

This is who uses alexa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk

[Knuckle]

I am confused about what this does or how it works.

Like, if someone jogging passes by my house listening to spotify, he links into my ring door cam to remain connected to the internet as he passes by my house, linking up with my neighbors smart toaster, etc etc?

"Like Recognizes Like" is the simplest form of it. Oh this is a fellow amazon device(legitimate from their standpoint), user is signed in thru amazon and gets to handshake. Same idea with Xfinity, you could connect to Xfinity hotspots once u signed into ur comcast on your phone, walk by someones house who unassumingly has this feature enabled, and it recognizes ur login and lets you use this seperate wifi broadcasting off the router.

[Jibartik]

halfway through that sentence I was like, huh??

I dont get this stuff at all lol

So like, since not many people walk by my house, its not a big deal, but if some criminal wanted to do something they could drive around at night and do something with my internet?

[HalflingSpergand]

Criminals could possible abuse your internet in the middle of the night, autistically

[Blingy]

Who actually owns/uses an Amazon voice controlled product?

Here in the greater Seattle area; you'd be surprised. Surprisingly though, none of my Amazon friends owns one. LMAO!

[imperiouskitten]

Who actually owns/uses an Amazon voice controlled product?

I use one for an alarm clock. I guess it also records my sex life in audio. SOmetimes it beeps or does the flashing lights to indicate it heard a keyword when we are talking about something with gravitas. I think it's honestly trying to intimidate me. Anyway, I figure it's better to give them a window into my life so they can have proof I'm a defanged consumer, cuz of my history and relations.

But honestly, your android phone is recording every single word you say that can be transcribed to text, and sending the text home. I'm sure some of y'all have android phones. Who cares about alexa.

[Jibartik]

Amazon voice recognition is the best IMO.

Not saying much, but of the top 3 its the best.

Why yall worry about this type of like, hack scenario, 1 thread over same people talking about second coming of jesus lol I dont think someone getting onto my wifi matters anymore just saying.

[imperiouskitten]

The only real reason the penetration of our private lives matters is that it allows us to be studied collectively, monitor which memes and info campaigns are most successful, analyse the spread of experimental keyphrases etc. They don't care about u individually. There's now a whole entire data set of couples private bedtime talks about politics, for instance.

[Knuckle]

i think theres two negative schools of thought, maybe three.

Supporting the beast can feel bad.

They are making more money off your data being freely given in the home then you paid for the product, I'm sure they don't mind giving them away. Why aren't we getting a cut of our personal info? They are reselling our personal data.

Privacy, it's abstract, but people are sucking in your audio/video from these devices 24/7. Is there some weird dude observing/listening the whole time? No, but I am sure they can if they want.

Security, I don't like more stuff connected to the internet beyond Phones and PCs in the event someone does tap into like security cameras or that sort of thing, just not feeling it.

I think I mostly fall in the bottom count, I prefer my cave to be semi secure.

[Jibartik]

If I had indoor security cameras, id be a bit concerned thats fair.

But I keep all my indoor security cameras off networks anyway because cant have anyone finding those in the hotel rooms I manage at my road side motel.

[aspomwell]

I see people comparing this to Comcast but it's not the same thing.

Comcast claims that when other people leach your data it doesn't count against your cap. They can at least claim that since they're your ISP.

Any Amazon device that shares out your data is sharing something that they don't own. Something tells me that Amazon isn't paying you back for the data they're stealing from you and giving to other people.

[Jibartik]

Id say its fair to say its not the same thing because anything comcast does doesnt work and everything amazon does is about a billion times over the head of anyone that works at comcast :p

[feniin]

Who the hell has data caps? what is this? Canada?

[magnetaress]

The only real reason the penetration of our private lives matters is that it allows us to be studied collectively, monitor which memes and info campaigns are most successful, analyse the spread of experimental keyphrases etc. They don't care about u individually. There's now a whole entire data set of couples private bedtime talks about politics, for instance.

Basically this, and it's cheaper and less legally liable to do this out of moscow and the ukraine then california, so god speed. :D