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Next they'll have government controlling our water and electricity.
by jaibot 13y ago
Next they'll have government controlling our water and electricity.
- a3n 13y agoYou can't monitor people via water or electricity. It can make sense for a city to run those things. For example, Seattle was not caught up in the WPPS (pronounced "woops") nuclear power debacle, because they run (or ran, I haven't lived there in 20 years) their own electric utility.
- jccooper 13y agoYou can monitor people based on water and electricity usage; it's less detailed, but you can get some information from it. Marijuana grow houses are commonly found through power usage signatures. In fact, they commonly steal power not just because they use a lot of it, but so they're not instantly detected. The new "smart meters", which provide much finer grained usage, will be even better for surveillance.