Our thanks go to the UK Column newspaper for featuring an article written by us this month: www.ukcolumn.org. Please share widely. LONDON, March 7, 2013, Stop Smart Meters! (UK) If you are the average Internet and telephone user, 736 pieces of personal information are collected about you […]
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Over the last few months, Stop Smart Meters! has been on the receiving end of some defamatory and unsubstantiated claims from Philip Bentley, Managing Director of UK energy giant, British Gas. We are currently considering what formal action to take, but something interesting happened recently that we […]
Read more →“Billions spent with taxpayer dollars on “smart meters” will not lead to U.S. sustainability; Place citizens and economy at risk” WASHINGTON, D.C. — November 26, 2012. A new policy report focused on the electric grid and economy of energy, “Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid”, was published today by […]
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Dear Mr. Bentley (& Co.) In a timely reminder that the Internet both giveth and taketh, security firm RSA this week warned that a highly organised group of cybercriminals are planning a massive banking trojan horse attack to fraudulently obtain customer funds. You can read about the [...]Read more →
Wherever you hear the term “you” here, replace it with the word “someone else” as, in the digital world, hacking is a mere keyboard stroke away… “Computer companies… manufacturers… bring forward a technology and I will show you that it’s penetrable… I’ll do it on national TV, […]
Read more →(CNSNews.com) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned a Senate panel today that America faces “the potential for another Pearl Harbor” launched by enemies who have the capability to wield a cyberattack that would “paralyze this country.” Panetta made his remarks under questioning by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) […]
Read more →Foreign computer hackers will be able to target individual homes Campaigners say it goes to far and creates ‘a spy in every home’ Home information could be ‘sold’ to burglars and identity thieves By GERRI PEEV, via http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2156648/Government-plans-install-smart-meters-homes-leave-open-cyber-attack.html#ixzz1xIbotW39 Intelligence chiefs have warned that plans to install smart energy meters in […]
Read more →Thalia Assuras from EnergyNow.com sat down with former CIA Director James Woolsey to discuss the current state of the nation’s electric grid and its vulnerabilities. Woolsey says the federal government’s oversight of grid security is inadequate and attacks on the grid are “entirely possible”. “No one in […]
Read more →This video is from a 2007 CNN report whereby researchers launched an experimental cyber attack (virtual realm) on a power generator which caused it to actually self-destruct (physical realm). This apparently alarmed the federal government and energy industry so much that they ploughed on with a plan […]
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