Reply to post: Re: Alarmist nonsense?

Hackers could turn your smart meter into a bomb and blow your family to smithereens – new claim

Kiwi
Holmes

Re: Alarmist nonsense?

How did the electricity co turn off your supply when you didn't pay your bill in the ancient times of spinning-metal-wheel meters, then? Hint: they didn't send an engineer out to your home.

What I'd love to know is why the downvotes for an honest post?

It has long been known that when you get blackouts, people have a tendency to pay bills that are behind. I've seen a lot of blackouts in my time and I've not once heard someone say something like "Can't be because we didn't pay the bill, they haven't sent an engineer around". Even in the 70's people assumed the the power companies could remotely turn your power off.

Ripple switches may've had something to do with that. Remote control of hot water cylinders takes only slightly less effort than remote control of a house's power, you only need a bigger set of contacts and one per phase.

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