On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:41:52 UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
The Natural Philosopher formulated the question :

You no longer need to protect private data on your network, it
is uploaded every night. And is no longer private.

But does it really matter?

You can work out when people are away on holiday by analysing such data. It's only a matter of time before some criminal organisation does this to pick houses to burgle.

If someone were really that interested, my gas and leccy cupboards are
outside and if someone so desperately wanted to, the could sneak round
and get my readings directly. All they need is a 10p triangular key and
a pen.

Way too labour intensive a way to be workable. A hacker & computer analysing 100,000 homes could however be profitable.

If there's one thing computing history teaches us, it's that some degree of paranoia is warranted with computer data. Of course some never learn.


NT