On 5/30/21, jim bell wrote:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-soon-automatical...

Jim Bell's comment:I've long believed that something like this could be good...if it is "done right" Unfortunately, I cannot tell what "done right" entails.

Telecoms (cable/fiber/dsl) already do this, commonly via internet they sell to commercial/retail locations, which often includes the Corps router/WiFi box as the demarc device. Customer pays for all that. Then the Corporation puts up another SSID or cellco base station for the public over the same lines and box, but does not pay the customer anything for freeloading off the customers real estate to reach adjacent users who typically buy convenience subscriptions to those paygated SSIDs/Cells. That freeloading would probably end quick once some genius pranksters abuse those SSIDs/Cells and get the innocent business / home owner raided for info, and news of that Corp embarassment hits the newswires. Imagine also the Corporate doorbell [s]cameras freeloading and GovCorp "partnership" linked into all the police departments automated AI video scanners. Some cranks will be wearing winter coats and Corona masks, going around hacking into or manually flashing forbidden pictures in front of the cams... cops raid and kill the biz / home owners at 4AM. Bye bye Amazon Ring. Or not. The only good is to build your own physical peer-to-peer encrypted meshnets linking up neighbors-to-neighbors around the globe so that there's no GovCorp ownership, no central authority, raids, censorship, payments, etc, thus you can freely share at will.