Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne...
by secfirstmd on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:11AM
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500 megabyte a month is a lot if you are loving in a relatively poor country.
Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne...
by lxgr on Sunday May 30, 2021 @12:02PM
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That's a fair point, and I do hope that regional caps will take that into consideration.
Generally speaking, are volume caps on fixed line internet a thing in many countries? I'd imagine that it would be hard to use something like a smart speaker on such a tight data budget in the first place, as I can't imagine them to be very bandwidth-conscious in general (music streaming having no "low data usage" option on them usually, etc).
Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne...
by cglace on Sunday May 30, 2021 @09:19AM
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Are people in poor countries likely to own a lot of Amazon devices?
Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne...
by justahuman74 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @03:00AM
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Wait till your IP address gets banned from something for being a source of spam
Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne...
by zorked on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:21AM
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Sidewalk does not allow generic access to the Internet. It connects to Sidewalk servers only.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne...
by bradknowles on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:21AM
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Or a crime gets committed via your IP address and you get thrown in jail for it.
It uses a maximum of 500 megabyte per month.
Regarding payload type registration – it seems like it would be pretty difficult to monitor that, given that payloads are encrypted.
That actually seems more like a feature than a problem to me: If my IP address does not show up in any logs and I can't even see what's being transmitted, I really doubt there would be any liability for the user here.