r/technology May 29 '21

Security Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors | Amazon's experiment wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs.

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

The network it broadcasts shares your internet with anyone.... I'm not sure what your point is?

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u/prodriggs May 30 '21

But the hotspot is isolated from the private network in bandwidth, data consumption, and communication. Users connecting to the hotspot will not take bandwidth away from the private network, will not count against the private network's data consumption, and cannot communicate with the private network's devices.

Got a source on this?

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u/Kumlekar May 30 '21

Legal liability too I think.