Then they wouldn't sell them "elsewhere". Amazon is exceedingly strict about access to customer data, when I worked in the AWS SOC the company was building a data center in western China to access the cheap solar power in the region. Having been assured that it would be as free from interference from the authorities as their DC in Beijing they were outraged when, before it even opened, local and military officials were demanding access. After a year of back and forth they abandoned the effort and sold the site at a loss, never having used it. That's how serious they are, they'll throw away a multi-hundred million dollar investment rather than allow access to customer data. Within the company you can literally access Jeff Bezos' personnel file easier than customer data.

Just FYI to everyone, home alarm systems are the very bottom of the priority list for police dispatchers, because over 95% of them are false alarms. Kids smoking weed in the park are literally a higher priority. If you want anyone to pay attention to your home alarm either 1) pay for guards to come check out alarms, or 2) get an outdoor alarm sounder so loud and obnoxious that the neighbors call the police to complain.

Price drops dramatically when you buy a gazillion of them.

Amazon does not sell customer data, ever. In my post higher in the thread I provide a link to the 'Ring Law Enforcement Guidelines'. It's not long, read it and realize what bullshit you've been fed by the concern trolls.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...

Amazon does not sell customer data, ever. When I worked there we had to take a test every year about data security policies, I could literally access Jeff Bezos' personnel file with a lower access than customer PID (personally identifying data).

No, cops will ***NOT*** be accessing any of this without a valid search warrant submitted through their ALERT system. More info, including the 'Ring Law Enforcement Guidelines', in my post just above yours https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
 

Just so that hopefully in the future you won't continue talking out your ass, here are the 'Ring Law Enforcement Guidelines'. They don't say anything at all similar to what you claim.

https://ring.com/support/artic...

Ring distinguishes between content and non-content information. We do not produce content information in response to subpoenas. We may produce non-content and content information in response to valid and binding search warrants. Requests must be submitted through the Amazon Law Enforcement Request Tracker (ALERT). . .

Ring does not accept service of subpoenas, search warrants, or other legal process except through ALERT. An individual account can be created here. Legal process must be served by uploading the appropriate documentation through ALERT. . .

Notification:Unless Ring is prohibited from doing so or has clear indication of illegal conduct in connection with the use of Ring products or services, Ring notifies an account owner before disclosing user information in response to a valid and binding legal demand.

Ignoring the pablum fed to the MSM, the problem in Ukraine appears to have been that the AFU was paying for the cheap subscription for a fixed end point and hard coding GPS coordinates through a hardware hack into the device. Apparently this crack was getting popular among people who should have been paying the higher price for roaming, and Corporate IT pushed an update to the satellites so that any supposedly fixed terminal which changed satellites faster than it should got the connection downgraded. Now whether the timing was fortuitous or prompted by Rump's lovers spat with Cocaine Kiev is questionable. Now apparently the AUF are using the Pentagram's MUCH more expensive Starshield connection for their drones, which they should have been using all along (Starlink isn't registered as a weapons component, Starshield is).

Update: He held out for about 5 days:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/a...

Salon? "a strong left wing voice"??? When did that happen? It's pretty much always been the voice of the conservative Clinton Democrats, no actual progressives allowed. IIRC I was banned from the site when I pointed out how in any civilized country the US Democratic Party would be considered 'center right' (at best), ever since Terry McAuliffe and the Clintons sold the Party to the financial industry in the 1990s. No actual progressive positions are allowed in the Party platform, progressives and socialists are buried under mountains of propaganda and false accusations and a deluge of advertising no non-millionaire could overcome, and any reasonable progressive proposal like socialized medicine or forcing mines to clean up their tailings piles are perverted into corporate-friendly programs like Romeycare or buried and blamed on Republican "obstruction".

We don't have a right and a left party in the Untied States. We have far-right and moderate-right parties instead.

A brother-in-law lives in Arequipa and another in Tacna, and a bunch of nieces and nephews in Lima, so we're more likely to go to the Atacama. An advantage of the Atacama over the Mojave is there are no plants to get in the way, there are areas where precipitation is measured in millimeters per decade.

Always wished I could find a meteorite, but the Sahara is too hot and Antarctica is too cold. Maybe there are some in the Atacama, I'll have to look the next time we go to Peru.

Tweedledum and Tweedledumber also proposed to purchase the Nordstream pipelines. This is all pie-in-the-sky stuff, Putin is far too much of a nationalist to let some of the most valuable assets the country has be taken over by the nation most intent on Russia's destruction. He's smart enough to string the idiot twins along for years though, dangling that carrot just out of reach.

NT 4.0 would be a good choice as long as it's air-gapped. Before the update-mania really took hold one of my NT 4.0 servers had longer uninterrupted uptime than any of our Unix, AIX, OS2 or Novell servers. The ex-DEC crew that wrote it, headed by Dave Cutler, did a fine job with it.

He got elected in part with ads and astroturf NGO action from the Orwellian-named National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA/State Dept. cutout. Most of the money is probably in Miami and NY banks.