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Default Smart meters: Cops. Arrests.

On 01-26-2013 07:38, NotMe wrote:
In part true but to what end? Unless the do-bad has a personal hard on for
the home owner what could be accomplished other than turning off the power?
Which depending on how the system was configured could be automatically
switched back on in short order?


"The Chamber continues to see suspicious activity, they say.
A thermostat at a town house the Chamber owns on Capitol Hill
at one point was communicating with an Internet address in China,
they say, and, in March, a printer used by Chamber executives
spontaneously started printing pages with Chinese characters."

Not likely to happen to a homeowner via an electric meter, but still
interesting. From
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204058404577110541568535300.html

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Wes Groleau

Is it an on-line compliment to call someone a Net Wit ?