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That's a gross misunderstanding of Sidewalk. If you read the paper, the goal of Sidewalk is to handle "how do I unlock my smart door" when your power/internet
by indrora 4y ago
That's a gross misunderstanding of Sidewalk.
If you read the paper, the goal of Sidewalk is to handle "how do I unlock my smart door" when your power/internet has gone sideways. It's intended for super low bandwidth "please pass this note to this device" type situations.
- walrus01 4y agothinking that amazon and its partners won't inevitably abuse having a backdoor network path for low data rate/telemetry in and out of consumer electronics without your consent (possibly feeding off a neighbor's sidewalk-enabled AP or similar) is a very naive view.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoThe paper is written by Amazon. Of course they're going to present it as a benefit to the end user. But I'm personally sure that "keeping visibility on a device the user doesn't want to be connected" is also a goal. I could be wrong but Amazon is just as focused on data collection everywhere as Google. Perhaps Amazon simply doesn't understand some of us want all our devices to not be connected to their hive all the time. But I'm sure the reason they want this is for their benefit, not ours.