Smart Meters

Security Expert Proves Hacking the Smart Grid Is a Snap

BY Ariel SchwartzWed Sep 2, 2009

smartmeter As with all wirelessly-connected electronic devices, smart meters--and in turn, the smart grid--are vulnerable to hackers. And if the smart grid is hacked, well, there goes the neighborhood's (or the city's) power. CNN recently demonstrated how a hacker equipped with $500 worth of equipment could take control of the grid, and now Mike Davis, a security consultant at IOActive, has presented a laundry list of ways that hackers could disrupt the smart grid.

Mississippi Goes It Alone With Smart Meter Network

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Mississippi Goes It Alone With Smart Meter Network

The state wants to install about 1,500 smart meters at state buildings using federal stimulus funds, which may represent a new, if smaller, market beyond utilities for smart meter vendors like Jackson, Miss.-based SmartSynch.

The Mississippi state government is taking a page from what has been until now a utility playbook and installing smart meters on its own.

It's the first project of its kind, but Jackson, Miss.-based SmartSynch, which is doing the job, may be hoping to popularize the concept.

Last week, Mississippi announced it would install about 1,500 smart meters at government buildings across the state, using $3.75 million in federal stimulus funds and SmartSynch technology for linking the meters via cellular networks from providers such as AT&T (see Your Electrical Meter Becomes a Cellphone).

Smart Meter Action Kit

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The site linked below provides information on smart meters and others wireless technology. Here is the introductory paragraph:

This "Smart Meter" Action Kit contains valuable information about so-called "Smart Meters." Conveniently, this information is being withheld by hydro and power authorities in hopes that deployment will go ahead unchallenged, without sufficient research into the health, safety and security issues involved.

Hopefully, along with other information on this website, the materials in this "kit" will provide tools for action and awareness. The far-reaching, negative impacts of these wireless utility meters are already a reality for many, as they are being deployed in communities throughout North America.

Sign an Opt-Out and Ban on Smart Meters Petition

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The People's Initiative Foundation has posted an online petition titled:

Immediate Opt-Out and Ban on Smart Meters

This site ask for your zip+4 or address and then displays contact information for President Obama, your Governor and Congressmen and upon agreeing to the petition, will send your petition letter to each.

To send the letters, CLICK HERE.

Mississippi Smart Meter Opt-Out Petition Online

To sign the petition to Governor Haley Barbour and Attorney General Jim Hood, CLICK HERE.

Below are links to some information about the dangers of Smart Meters:

http://stopsmartmeters.org/

Just Say No to Big Brothers Smart Meters

Is Our Water GoIng to Be Controlled by SmartMeters?

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After controlling our electrical usage through SmartMeters, next comes the control of our water meters.
CLICK HERE to learn more.

The Water Restoration Act of 2007, along with other legislation, gives the federal government complete control over every waterway, river, stream, lake, aquifer, creek, slew, swamp, underground spring and even the rain that runs off your rrof. Why? Well it is better to protect you from polluters and to ensure water safety, and of course, national security.

http://waronyou.com/2008/04/siezing-waterthe-water-rest...

http://www.alternet.org/water/76819

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