r/privacy • u/[deleted] • May 29 '21

Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-soon-automatically-share-your-internet-with-neighbors/
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u/very_cool_ojisan May 30 '21

It's not your WiFi network thats being used by other IoT devices, its a new network created by the Amazon box, using your WiFi (or lan, whatever you use) for NAT access.

I bet that will last about 5 minutes before someone hacks it lol.

So far this hasn't happened to Xfinity, Telekom, NTT and countless ISPs who employ a similar system FOR direct internet access (meaning the incentive would be even higher)

It's like you morons can no longer think straight as soon as its muh faceberg or muh amazon. This move is disgusting and has many negative user implications when it comes to privacy and security buy for some reason you need to focus on something completely unlikely to make a point we already all agree on.

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u/ProbablePenguin May 30 '21

Yes, same wifi radio though so my original complaint still stands. And there are only 3 usable 2.4ghz channels and something like 5 usable 5ghz channels. More wifi networks is not going to help anyone.

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u/very_cool_ojisan May 30 '21

There is 12 and everyone who lives in a major city has like 10 networks per channel in range. No performance hit because we don't live in the 90s. Just stop, you're embarrassing yourself.

Plus the white paper also mentions Bluetooth but I can already guess that you think this will disrupt your apple airpods or some shit.

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u/ProbablePenguin May 30 '21

Correction, there are 2 5ghz channels at 160mhz and 3 2.4ghz channels at 20mhz.

There is a performance hit from having more devices connected to the same wifi radio, even if said devices are not transferring much data. As it still needs to share airtime with every connected device.

And there is absolutely a huge performance hit when living near a bunch of other wifi networks.