Archive for the Loss of control Category

Two mothers arrested for refusing Smart Meter installation in United States (still think this is about benefitting you?)

*Warning – the first video on this page starts automatically*. Video from CBS, story from http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/24/woman-arrested-while-refusing-smart-meter-installation-on-her-property-tells-us-her-story/ Jennifer Stahl has been a strong advocate against the smart meter program in Naperville, Ill., for the last two years. The issue came to a head Wednesday afternoon when she was […]

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Smart TV ‘Detection Zone’ Will Know What You Are Doing And What You Are Discussing Whilst Watching Television

You have to hand it to films such as Minority Report (2002) for getting concepts like this into the consciousness of future target customers.  After a 10 year wait, the time has come to pounce on those who watched the film in their formative years and are […]

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EU-Funded Group Outlines Draconian Population Control Scenarios For The Next Forty Years

[SSM UK comment] Pay careful attention to the scenarios outlined (and accompanying use of Smart Meters) by this EU-funded ‘Think Tank’ that many people will have never heard of, nor know anything about.  As an example, from the “Breaking Point” scenario: “As a back stop to control […]

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Hurricane Sandy 1-0 Not-So-Smart Grid. Poor Response to Recent Storm Power Outages & Continued Warnings By Medical Experts

[SSM UK comment]: Despite Hurricane Sandy being used by some as an opportunity to vacuously promote the energy non-panacea that is Smart Grid, the result of it’s first match is in.  Smart Grid promoters might want to look away now…(but don’t say we didn’t try to warn […]

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Stop Smart Meters! (UK) Issues Security Challenge To British Gas – We Can Prove Your Smart Meters Are Not Safe & Secure

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

Take Back Your Power – Official Trailer

Featuring a host of scientists, medical practitioners, researchers, experts, consultants and victims, we are proud to be the first to present you with the brand new, official trailer for the upcoming feature film, Take Back Your Power. *PS – if you have not yet seen the full-length interview the […]

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Chairman of Interior Smart Meter Awareness (Kamloops) Exposes the Reality of “Smart Grid” and the “Cloud”

Great video presentation by Brian Thiesen covering a lot of important information, some specific to Canada but all of it relevant.  Don’t miss it. Brian is also now blogging at http://bcfreedom.wordpress.com

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Italy bans cash payments over €50 from 2013; the war on your privacy widens

Just when you thought that modern-day Peeping Tom-ery couldn’t get any more voyeuristic, the unelected government of the former democracy known as Italy just proved otherwise. “Italien: ab 2013 kein Bargeld über 50 Euro” ran the headline in Suedtirol News, announcing that from 2013, you will no […]

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‘Smart Homes’ – providing information on who’s in… when you’re out

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, […]

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New report warns of ‘Smart’ Meter failures due to temperature & weather extremes

A sobering report for Stop Smart Meters! (UK) by independent scientist and researcher, Dr. Issac Jamieson, has brought to light some extremely troubling facts associated with international ‘Smart” Meter design specifications which could spell catastrophe for thousands of households and even lead to loss of life. In […]

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‘Smart’ Meter Commercial – courtesy of Nevada Constitutional Alliance (NOT Big Energy…)

via Smart Meter Commercial – YouTube.

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ALERT: ‘Smart’ Water Meters to be installed in UK homes

[SSM UK Comment]  There are very serious concerns raised by the desire to place ‘Smart’ Water Meters into our water supply.  Not only do they measure and communicate water usage through harmful electromagnetic radiation, they also introduce a remotely-disconnectable, internet-enabled, wirelessly-accessible component into our water supply.  It is a profoundly stupid […]

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Smart meters are “massive surveillance tech” – Privacy Supremo

Euro watchdog demands data law to protect punters By Bill Ray • The Register “The European Data Protection Supervisor has warned that smart meters are a significant privacy threat and wants limits on the retention and use of customer data before it’s too late.” “Peter Hustinx….warns that […]

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MUST WATCH: Smart Meters Health & Privacy Explained – Prof. Glen Chase

In this interview, Professor Glen Chase brings to light some absolutely KEY information in the areas of privacy and health regarding ‘Smart’ Meters, using primary data including information obtained under a court order.  Prof. Chase interprets and makes this information highly accessible. Once you have seen it, […]

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CIA Director calls Smart Grid “Really, Really Stupid”

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 […]

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Ex-Police Force Fraud Investigator On Smart Meters

via Ex-fraud investigator on smart meters [Take Back Your Power] – YouTube  

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FBI: Smart Meter hacks likely to spread — Utilities are unprepared

[SSM UK comment] We seem to be experiencing a surge in stories being contributed to us which warn about the unnecessary systemic vulnerabilities that a Smart [sic] Grid presents.  Remedying this – if indeed possible – can only add to the burden on tax payers and bill […]

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Hacking Expert David Chalk Joins Urgent Call to Halt Smart Grid

[SSM UK comment] We issued a video earlier featuring David Chalk, but this press release just came in and is a must read – posted here in full with the video re-embedded via BusinessWire.com and ThePowerFilm.org. Please circulate.[/] “100% certainty of a total catastrophic failure of entire energy grid […]

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Network – Your Life, Monetised

Network from Michael Rigley on Vimeo. Extract: “The average user will have 736 pieces of personal information collected every day…accessible anytime in their service provider’s retention period.  Most individuals will have over a million pieces of information spanning the past 45 months already in their provider’s possession.  A third-party, owning nearly […]

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Move Over Murdoch – How to Hack a Smart Meter

Original story found on The Register – excerpts below: “White-hat hackers have exposed the privacy shortcomings of smart meter technology. “The researchers said German firm Discovergy apparently allowed information gathered by its smart meters to travel over an insecure link to its servers. The information – which could be […]

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