Archive for April 2016

Dogs Tortured by Chronic RF Pulses from Smart Meter

Warning: graphic for some viewers.  Viewer discretion advised. The meter is located underneath the back porch awning of this building at the corner and is mounted to the brick wall.  

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Intervention required to protect £11bn UK smart meter system from potential mass hack

The UK’s electronic intelligence agency has had to act with haste to secure smart meters destined for large scale roll-out, after a security loophole was discovered on the devices. GCHQ intervened to change the original designs and save the £11bn nationwide system of smart energy meters against […]

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Using your washing machine at night could cost you your life: Firefighters warn over plan to charge different rates at different times of day

James Burton, This is Money, 22 March 2016 Millions of lives will be put at risk by plans to offer all families cheaper energy during the night, firefighters say. To help people cut their energy bills, the Government is working with power companies to fit a ‘smart meter’ […]

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Smart meters ‘only useful for providers’: ACE

Smart meters fail to provide customers with “genuinely” useful information, and are only useful to electricity providers who can use them to cut costs, according to the honorary president of the Association for the Conservation of Energy. Andrew Warren, who is also chair of the British Energy […]

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AECB News: Will the Smart Meter Roll-Out be Another Government IT Disaster?

Fears the Government’s Flagship Smart Meter Programme Could be Heading for Trouble by Andrew Warren 13-April-2016 (….The MPs raised detailed concerns about failures with technical, logistical and public communication issues – each of which have resulted in yet further delays to the much-postponed national roll-out programme. The […]

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Bogus traders offer smart meter service by St. Helens Council

St Helens Council is advising residents to be wary of individuals carrying out doorstep cold calling in the borough…. Recently there have been reports of doorstep cold calling in the Fingerpost and Blackbrook areas, with householders told that installation of smart meters was compulsory and should be […]

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Cassetteboy vs The Snoopers’ Charter

If you’re not worried about the Investigatory Powers Bill (aka the Snoopers’ Charter), you don’t know enough about it. Visit https://www.privacyinternational.org and join the campaign against new Government snooping powers. For some ideas on how to maintain online privacy, see this list of helpful resources which was sent to […]

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