There have been reports of things like SmartTVs automatically connecting to ANY open WiFi(xFinity, etc). They are trying to create mesh networks that don't care whether you give them your networks pw or not.
That's not a mesh network. A mesh network would be if the TV, lacking an internet connection, instead connected to your neighbour's TVs, and via them to the next TV along, until it finds the poor sod who did connect their TV to the internet and can pass the messages finally back to the server.
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You see these devices are connected to your Wi-Fi network
That's true only if I provide it with my Wi-Fi password.
And there's no way in hell I'm going to be entering my Wi-Fi password into a bunch of IoT devices.
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Re:I control my Wi-Fi, not them. (Score:2)
"They are trying to create mesh networks."
That's not a mesh network. A mesh network would be if the TV, lacking an internet connection, instead connected to your neighbour's TVs, and via them to the next TV along, until it finds the poor sod who did connect their TV to the internet and can pass the messages finally back to the server.