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It's not at all like Apple "Find my Device". Someone could stealthily put an Amazon Tile in your car or bag and track you. Also it's so complex that it WILL be hacked and is creating a parallel network to the internet with opaque security. Extending a monopoly as well as being wrong in so many other ways.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/...sidewalk_mesh/
And it's using a UHF license free spectrum illegal outside the USA.
This is PLAIN ABUSIVE
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Yada, yada, yada. Blah, blah, blah. It's exactly like Apple's "Find my Device". To pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
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Someone could stealthily put an Amazon Tile in your car or bag and track you.
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Someone could stealthily put ANY KIND OF tracker in your car or bag and track you. That's how trackers work. Sidewalk doesn't make that any more likely (or easier). In fact, the "Community Finding" aspect of Sidewalk is
disabled by default. Meaning no one will be able to use Sidewalk bridge devices to track stranger's Tiles unless they specifically decide they want to share that ability with neighbors. Because the location of the bridge is not shared unless Community Finding is specifically enabled. You WILL however be able to track
your own registered Tile devices without needing to enable Community Finding.
The horrific decision to make Sidewalk opt-out instead of opt-in means that the riskiest proposition is that owners will be able to turn their outdoor lights off through the neighborhood mesh in the event of their internet being down. The only way people can get an approximate location for your Sidewalk Bridge devices is if you yourself grant them that ability by turning on a feature that is disabled by default.
You want to be paranoid? Fine. Have it. But it's time to stop pretending you're even remotely rational when it comes to criticizing Amazon.
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And it's using a UHF license free spectrum illegal outside the USA.
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Using the 900 Mhz Bluetooth Low Energy spectrum is illegal outside the USA?
The
Sidewalk Security Whitepaper for any who might want to use facts instead of FUD to make their decisions