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Rumor has it back in the day, a relatively strong, well placed magnet would certainly slow the rotation of the metering dial...
by brewtide 5y ago
Rumor has it back in the day, a relatively strong, well placed magnet would certainly slow the rotation of the metering dial...
- sethhochberg 5y ago...though once this kind of attack became common, the utility meter manufacturers started adding anti-tamper features like hall effect sensors that record the presence of an unusually strong magnetic field near the meter equipment. You'd get some questions next time the meter reader came around and the tamper indicator was lit. Utilities have a lot of financial incentive to keep people from (at least blatantly) manipulating their billing.
- thrashh 5y agoI wonder if you could screw with someone you don’t like by putting a big fat magnet on their meter. Ofc with the new prevalence of home cameras, that would be risky now.