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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by supernova87a on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:54PM (#27441446)
There's not that many things about the smart meter that are much worse than the vulnerabilities of the plain old spinning disk meter. There were many problems with old meters too. And the benefits far outweigh those issues. Smart meters are not being hacked left and right.

And your privacy concerns are just a matter of granularity of time. You report your usage monthly -- that is also private information. Smart meters just do it on a finer timescale. Not a fundamental difference.

Anyway, back to the main topic.

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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by Arch-TK on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:19PM (#27441793)
The vulnerabilities of the plain old spinning disk meter may have been bad but they couldn't be exploited remotely from someone else's house.

Yes, granularity of the measurements IS a problem. If these things only reported the readings when I pressed a button, I would not be so concerned about privacy (that is if the companies could prove to me that the meters did not report the readings outside of these times).

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