wrote
Harry Bloomfield wrote
The Natural Philosopher wrote

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.

You can do that by analysing their mobile phone records too. No one bothers.

It's only a matter of time before some criminal
organisation does this to pick houses to burgle.

How odd that it hasnt happened with the mobile phone records.

Or the records of the fuel they buy for the car either.

Or the airline tickets they buy either.

Or the records of what grocerys they buy either.

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.

See above.

If there's one thing computing history teaches us, it's that
some degree of paranoia is warranted with computer data.

Clearly not with whether some criminal organisation
can work out whether you are away on holiday or not.

Of course some never learn.

And some like you are too stupid to have even noticed
that none of the stuff I listed has ever been used by any
criminal organisation to work out what places to burgle.

Presumably because the absolute vast bulk of the burglary
of individual private residences is done by stupid druggys
funding the drug habits and they dont actually snoop on
that data in the places they work for to make that easier.