wrote
Rod Speed wrote
tabbypurr wrote
Harry Bloomfield wrote
dennis@home wrote

Someone paranoid enough to worry about smart
meters wouldn't use the internet from home.

They wouldn't have a phone either as the bad
guys could phone up to see if you are home.

Precisely, there are so many alternative ways to assess
whether you at home or not and with much greater
certainty than checking your consumption figures.

which are too labour intensive to be worth bothering with.
With computer data you can automatically anaylse 100,000
houses at once, and sell 10s of addresses to criminals per day.

Just as true of supermarket checkout data, services station sales
records,
airline ticket sales, train ticket sales, hotel bookings, the data govt
has
about all those people pouring thru airports etc etc etc.

it isn't...

Wrong.

we covered that

Just how many of you between those ears ?

Means, motive & opportunity.

Waffle.

My Wifi is on and running, my lights come on and go off at appropriate
times, I have cameras keeping an eye on the place and it is alarmed.

When present there's lots of other consumption
too. Not too hard to tell them apart.

Just as true of supermarket checkout data, services station sales
records,
airline ticket sales, train ticket sales, hotel bookings, the data govt
has
about all those people pouring thru airports etc etc etc.

nope.

Yep.

Bye bye Wodney. Enjoy your wet paper bag challenge.

Fat lot of good that will do you, gutless.