David Icke, the well-known British conspiracy theorist, tweeted today (March 2 2014):
"Mainstream media admits smart meters are spying devices"
The link takes you to an article on his site:
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/mainstream-media-admits-smart-meters-are-spying-devices/
http://intellihub.com/mainstream-media-admits-smart-meters-spying-devices/
Which links to the actual NBC story: from Jan 10th 2012, over two years ago - not exactly a "Recent article".
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45946984/...s-can-be-used-spy-private-homes/#.UwpdSPldUtF
Nowhere in this does anyone "admit" that smart meters are spying devices. What is discussed is a flaw in one German companies Smart Meter that allows people to hack into it and snoop on the communications. It's basically like using a web site (such as your bank) that you thought was secure, and then finding out that it's not actually secure.
The exploits shown all depend on this flaw, which has since been fixed. Of course there's nothing to prove that similar snooping cannot be done further down the line (as we've seen with the NSA's interception of telephone metadata). However this is a information that is pretty much all being broadcast anyway. Your cell phone knows your location and who you call, your ISP knows what web sites you visit, Google knows what's in your Gmail, your cable company known what movies you watch, your credit card company knows what you buy. These are all far more significant things than your energy usage.
"Mainstream media admits smart meters are spying devices"
The link takes you to an article on his site:
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/mainstream-media-admits-smart-meters-are-spying-devices/
That is just a paraphrasing of a story from Feb 24 2014:
‘For years researchers and activists have been warning about the health and privacy dangers involved with smart meters. As usual, the mainstream media ridiculed these warnings and insisted that smart meters were harmless. However, now it is becoming common knowledge that these smart meters can be used to spy on innocent people, and even the mainstream media is starting to catching on.
Shockingly, news organizations like NBC are even picking this story up, in a recent article for NBC News, Matt Liebowitz writes:
Researchers examining the privacy implications of smart-meter technology found that one German provider’s devices contained vulnerabilities that allowed them to snoop on unencrypted data to determine whether or not the homeowners were home.
http://intellihub.com/mainstream-media-admits-smart-meters-spying-devices/
Which links to the actual NBC story: from Jan 10th 2012, over two years ago - not exactly a "Recent article".
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45946984/...s-can-be-used-spy-private-homes/#.UwpdSPldUtF
Which in turn is based up on talk given at the Chaos Computing Congress in Berlin on Dec. 30, 2011
Carluccio and Brinkhaus presented their research in a presentation titled " Smart Hacking for Privacy" at the Chaos Computing Congress in Berlin on Dec. 30.
Flaws in Discovergy's Web interface also enabled the researchers to send back rigged meter readings to the company, and to tap into the company's servers and obtain a complete record of all the information collected by a home's smart meter.
Nowhere in this does anyone "admit" that smart meters are spying devices. What is discussed is a flaw in one German companies Smart Meter that allows people to hack into it and snoop on the communications. It's basically like using a web site (such as your bank) that you thought was secure, and then finding out that it's not actually secure.
The exploits shown all depend on this flaw, which has since been fixed. Of course there's nothing to prove that similar snooping cannot be done further down the line (as we've seen with the NSA's interception of telephone metadata). However this is a information that is pretty much all being broadcast anyway. Your cell phone knows your location and who you call, your ISP knows what web sites you visit, Google knows what's in your Gmail, your cable company known what movies you watch, your credit card company knows what you buy. These are all far more significant things than your energy usage.
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