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by: Dean Hoffman - Wed, 2 Jun 2021 21:23 UTC

Amazon will automatically connect your devices to something called
Sidewalk Network. Fortunately, I don't happen to own any of them. The article talks about Ring and Echo devices. It has a link to a list.
<https://www.theverge.com/22463257/amazon-sidewalk-privacy-how-to-opt-out>

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by: Don Y - Fri, 4 Jun 2021 00:30 UTC

On 6/2/2021 2:23 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
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> Amazon will automatically connect your devices to something called Sidewalk
> Network. Fortunately, I don't happen to own any of them. The article talks
> about Ring and Echo devices. It has a link to a list.
> <https://www.theverge.com/22463257/amazon-sidewalk-privacy-how-to-opt-out>

Any "bridge" connection to the outside has the potential to be
exploited to steal bandwidth (in addition to the bandwidth that
it "expectedly" consumes).

A device can tunnel to an external server which can then act as
a proxy for <whatever> traffic -- thereby obfuscating the actual
traffic and its endpoint. E.g., if you saw traffic destined for
spammersRus.com at your router, you'd recognize it as unwanted.
But, if that was tunneled under a connection to amazon, google,
mybabymonitor.com, etc. you'd be hard pressed to notice that it
wasn't "baby monitor" traffic.

Moral: don't have devices that talk to the outside world
unless you don't care what they transport!

Subject	Author
Amazon and Bandwith Sharing	Dean Hoffman
Re: Amazon and Bandwith Sharing	Don Y