Re: The reason they are so keen on deploying smart meteres...
"Of course what this will really mean in the real world, is that they can remotely turn off power to individual houses (i.e. yours!) on a much finer granularity than can be achieved with the current mechanisms of demand management."
The day that "they" start rolling power cuts in this manner is the day that "they" are likely to start seeing molotov cocktails being tossed through the office door (or worse).
Of course "they" believe that they're nice and isolated from this mess, not realising that every single detail of their lives, locations and home addresses are obtainable and publishable should enough people be pissed off enough to start looking.
If the masses become aware that this is even remotely on the agenda, installation of smartmeters will be resisted "by force if necessary", along with bypass arrangements becoming fairly common.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
