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No, it doesn't. Those aren't designed to make a bridge between untrusted networks. With a phone, they're usually on either LTE (which is generally regarded as reasonably secure) or your home network, but not typically both at the same time. Someone at Verizon could hypothetically exploit my phone from inside their network and then use that to attack my home LAN but that seems a pretty low risk. I don't believe that a…
It's a change, certainly, but mobile devices are a much bigger risk to your internal network than a Echo device is. Both are general-purpose computers inside, but the attack surface of a phone is way larger, and there are plenty of recorded instances of phones being compromised. The Echo devices have a good security track record, and I feel they remain much less likely to be compromised than any mobile device. The nu…
I have a few Tile tags, too, and I hope their new Amazon partnership makes them start being useful. It didn’t need Sidewalk though.