Panzer was shaken awake from his afternoon nap by booing and hissing coming from the Catosphere. Hopping in the Panzermobile, our brave kitty followed all the noise to the ARS Technica site. There with a digging at he found a post about the new Amazon Sidewalk was causing all the noise.
According to the post by Dan Goodin, Amazon's new Sidewalk is a wireless service which allows your neighbors' Amazon devices to share your wifi service and your devices to do the same with their wifi. Not heard of Amazon Sidewalk before? Well, if you live in U.S., your Amazon devices got automatically added to the service on June 8. This is what is called an Opt-out Service which means you are responsible for opting out of the service even if you didn't know you were added to it. The post has information about what devices are included in Amazon Sidewalk and what you need to do to remove your devices from the service.
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Panzer says, "One of our neighbors is a big, ugly, slobbering pitbull. I don't want him using our wifi. Oh, wait. We don't have any of those Amazon devises, so he can't use our wifi."
Note: This is a long post. Bring a huge glass of lemonade and a big chocolate cupcake for today's reading selection.
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