Amazon devices has a feature called Amazon Sidewalk. This allows your devices to share a small portion of your home bandwidth for other IoT devices from other people in range to use through this IoT Mesh network. This episode talks about the expansion of this service and why you should consider disabling it.

Source - https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/05/amazon-sidewalk-adds-new-partners-plans-to-open-to-developers-soon/

Amazon Sidewalk - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/introducing-amazon-sidewalk

Original Podcast Episode - https://securityinfive.libsyn.com/episode-972-amazon-sidewalk-quietly-released-turn-it-off

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