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I want to thank you for making me aware of this. I had never thought of the ability to track me merely by energy usage. That one's "silent" enough to not even h
by Nadya 11y ago
I want to thank you for making me aware of this. I had never thought of the ability to track me merely by energy usage. That one's "silent" enough to not even have crossed my mind and shy of wasting energy (and money) I don't see a way to "beat the system" here outside of getting off the grid.
- acomjean 11y agoI was a little surprised by it too. The new "smart" power meters that are starting to be installed by power companies deliver hourly power use data to the power company for a variety of reasons. Parts of California US has a moratorium on these smart meters for "health and privacy" reasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter#California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter#California I though you could write a good mystery that could be solved using a power monitoring system... But alas I am not a writer.
- xkcd-sucks 11y ago'fuzzing' by putting a space heater on a timer, or a big storage battery to smear out the load over time the first option might burn your house down though