Possible,yes. Illegal? Yes.
So,sorry,unless you show me any proof that any device does it I consider it unlikely.
If you show me proof I am more than happy to call a few old contacts and raise a stink with ECC/CEPT. They don’t fuck around.
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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months agoWell, if your neighbor has one, I could totally see it being designed to use that connection at least for discovering nearby open networks.
thantik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yep, you got it - that’s EXACTLY what they do. That’s the purpose of the “Sidewalk” network.