Stop Smart Meters! (uk)

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, please re-post and forward it to your loved ones and contacts.  Don’t pass this one up.

Call notes here http://thepowerfilm.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PLEASE-PRINT-for-Smart-Meter-Conf-Call-26Apr2012.pdf

via Smart Meters Public Meeting: Health & privacy facts explained – YouTube

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 charge of security for the grid, whether it’s cyber or transformers or whatever. You can search forever through the federal code to try to find who that person might be.”

“And a so-called ‘Smart Grid’ that is as vulnerable as what we’ve got is not smart at all, it’s a really, really stupid grid.”

via CIA Director calls Smart Grid Really Stupid – Security – Smart Meters – YouTube

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

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 four years of your life… Those in the network pay to be unknowing participants in a vast study group…Your four years of information is extracted and sold without consent, contributing to the nearly $34,000 accumulated every second by the information sector.”

On the subject of the intrusive, behaviour-based profiling and targeting this data-harvesting activity drives, where services are pre-emptively limited in scope without your permission, the narrator chillingly concludes:

“The global internet becomes the personal internet – and information ceases to be information at all.”

Smart Meters and Home Area Network-sourced data would add significantly to this marketers’ panopticon.

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 intercepted – apparently could be interpreted to reveal not only whether or not users happened to be at home and consuming electricity at the time but even what film they were watching, based on the fingerprint of power usage. The many surprising secrets revealed by some smart meter set-ups were revealed during a presentation by researchers Dario Carluccio and Stephan Brinkhaus at the 28th Chaos Computing Congress (28c3) hacker conference in Berlin late last month.

“Some security experts, most notably Ross Anderson, professor in security engineering at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, have warned that smart metering introduces a “strategic vulnerability” that might be exploited to remotely switch off elements on the gas or electricity supply grid. Government ministers in the UK have downplayed such fears but the work of the German researchers raise new concerns, related to privacy.”

Story in full here http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/09/smart_meter_privacy_oops/

More than 100 Texans have joined together to petition public utilities regulators to ban so-called “smart” power meters because of the health threats they impose on the general public.

The meters are designed to interact with various advanced electronic appliances to monitor – and even manipulate – the use of power.

“Petitioners who have been subjected to forced or compelled installation of smart meters or have been exposed to RF and EMF radiation generated by smart meters fraudulently installed on neighboring homes and businesses have experienced difficulties with symptoms of insomnia, headaches, dizziness, nausea and other symptoms,” states the petition, submitted to the Public Utilities Commission of Texas by attorney Tom Cryer on behalf of Devvy Kidd, John Kidd and more than 100 others.

Cryer said his goal is to obtain a ruling on the dangers of the meters based on the health risks they pose.

“It’s like rushing thalidomide to the market … and not knowing the consequences,” he said, referring to the 1950s and 1960s use of the drug that caused major birth defects for children whose mothers used it.

… Action movie actor, martial arts champion and WND columnist Chuck Norris…asserted that complaints about ailments from the “electrosmog” are not hysteria or hype.

“Electrosmog is pollution through electromagnetic energy.  It is being produced by this vast post-Edison world, in which electromagnetic fields and flows have inundated the space around us,” he wrote.

He cited the work of Dr. David Carpenter, head of the New York State Department of Health for years, who said there is evidence that radio frequency exposure at elevated levels for long periods of time raises the risk of cancer and damage to the nervous system.

Also, author Brian Sussman in “Climategate” warns readers about the Smart Grid, Smart Meters, Smart Thermostats and Energy Star appliances – which he says will allow unseen bureaucrats to regulate all of the appliances in America’s homes.

“This is not fantasy,” says Sussman, an award-winning television meteorologist, “This is reality.  Smart Meters have already replaced the whirling, old-fashioned electric meters on the side of millions of houses in America – they monitor electricity usage minute-by-minute and can be read remotely.  The remote-controlled Smart Thermostats are being installed as well and further enable bureaucratic control the temperature of your abode.  The Smart Grid, which was mandated in the 2007 energy bill and funded with ‘stimulus’ money, is coming next.  The grid will possess interactive broadband capabilities to further control all of the new-generation Energy Star appliances you will be forced to purchase – like your washer, dryer, water heater and even your flat-screen TV.”

via Texans demand freedom from smart meters

via Smart meters – the latest example of Britain leading the world in invasive technology | Big Brother Watch.

“We, Siemens, have the technology to record it (energy consumption) every minute, second, microsecond, more or less live,” said Martin Pollock of Siemens Energy, an arm of the German engineering giant, which provides metering services.

“From that we can infer how many people are in the house, what they do, whether they’re upstairs, downstairs, do you have a dog, when do you habitually get up, when did you get up this morning, when do you have a shower: masses of private data.”

“Two German researchers have exploited security holes in a smart meter service to alter energy consumption rates, expose privacy flaws and determine what movies consumers had watched.

“Dario Carluccio and Stephan Brinkhaus demonstrated the flaws with German energy company Discovergy at the Chaos Computing Congress in Berlin.

“The researchers, also customers, learnt that energy consumption data was sent unencrypted because SSL was malfunctioning.”

via Hackers rewrite smart meter power bill – Networks – SC Magazine Australia – Secure Business Intelligence.

“Putting ‘smart’ gas and electricity meters in every home – at a total cost of £11.7billion – may bring little benefit to customers, MPs will warn today.

“Families will have to pay higher bills to fund the Government-backed scheme to have the digital equipment installed by 2019.

“And there is no evidence the energy giants will pass on to customers any of the millions of pounds they will save with the introduction of the new technology, MPs say.

“Smart meters give real-time information on a home’s energy use and cost, and Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has backed them, arguing they will encourage families to cut back to save money while also lowering carbon emissions.

“Energy firms support the technology because it can supply precise meter readings automatically over the mobile phone network, thereby allowing them to lay-off thousands of meter readers and billing staff.

“It will also allow them to cut off homes at the click of a mouse.”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087650/11bn-smart-meter-plans-risk-fiasco-MPs-warn-energy-suppliers-benefit.html#ixzz1jkqta29f

via http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/12/08/smart-meters-being-funded-by-the-us-military/

The utility companies have described their installation of ‘smart’ meters as a “deployment.”  They have called those of us peacefully defending the safety and health of the public “insurgents.” At times, scenes of the public physically blocking military-style smart meter installations conjure up images of wartime.   But is the smart meter program actually being funded by the military?  Is the “smart grid” somehow linked with military research and development?  That’s what documents unearthed and analyzed by Las Vegas activist and firebrand Angel de Fazio would seem to suggest.

Angel obtained a document that details a nearly 300 million dollar grant from the federal government to NV Energy to install smart meters.  On the “authorization” line it refers to two funding sources:  31 USC 6304 and 10 USC 2358.   “31 USC 6304″ is a relatively straightforward designation on “using  grant agreements.”  But do a search for “10 USC 2358″ and you will find it identified as “US Armed Forces Research and Development Projects”

Now at StopSmartMeters.Org we’re not the first ones to call “conspiracy” at the slightest suspicion of impropriety.  Yet this discovery raises important questions about the hasty and undemocratic smart meter installations, about the smart meters that have been spying on people and making thousands sick in their own homes from pulsed radiation.

It’s become fairly clear to anyone involved in this fight- that this is not just simply a utility meter upgrade.  There is more to these devices than meets the eye.

Given recent events, we believe there are valid reasons to be rather alarmed by Angel’s chance discovery, and at the very least the public deserves an explanation of why the military would be involved in a domestic utility project.  Some of those recent events include:

1.  Last week the US Senate approved the National Defense Authorization Act which would allow the military to detain any US Citizen indefinitely without trial or chargeswithin the United States.

2.  Within the last month, the US Army has stationed an active unit on domestic duty within the United States- in order to deal with “civil unrest” and crowd control.

3.  There is growing evidence that US Homeland Security helped to coordinate the brutal crackdowns on the Occupy encampments in major US cities over the past few weeks.

We stated publicly in August 2010 that we believe the smart meter program is an attack on the public, and that we the people must mobilize to defend ourselves.  Today, thanks to the diligent investigative efforts of grassroots activists, we have evidence that the US military may in fact be linked with this “deployment.”

What do you think?

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