Well, now the news is coming out that smart meters could be used by terrorists to cause blackouts. (Duh!) It seems that terrorists can hijack the meters in order to shut off the electricity or gas that the smart meter controls. Instead of physically turning off the meter, they only have to plant a virus and send computer codes.
Doesn’t that make you feel safe? With such technology we are MORE vulnerable to terrorism. Who was it that thought that such a program was good for Texas? -CONgressmen Lloyd Doggett and Gene Green. Even though the SEA (Scientist and Engineers for America) support him (Doggett), with all that education, it seems that they did not do all their homework on this one. Let’s face it, with the policies he supported (increasing the debt, voting for the stimulus [of which the Austin area gets a large portion for smart technology], removing our incandesent light bulbs, raising the tax on pipe tobacco 775%, forcing people to buy medical insurance against their will, and removing loop holes from the tax code) who could ask for more. With the smart grids, whole communities are now at greater risk of danger. Since the grid is interconnected with a central control, it will not take much to knock them out of commission. I guess that since he voted to raise taxes on energy, now he wants to make us more vulnerable as well. Those vulnerabilities are not only to terrorist actions, but also to privacy concerns. The smart meter will be able to tell third parties how much energy you are using, what your are using, etc. which is none of their business.
Consider how Gene Green is wanting all the critical infrastructures of Houston (the medical center, port of Houston, NASA, transportation control, chemical plants and pipelines all hooked into the so-called smart grid. Having all such grids with one central control is asking for a disaster.
Experience ought to tell you that anything out of Mordor on the Potomac (Washington) that has the label ’smart’ attached to it is anything but.
Liberty for Texas and the South!
J Murrah
29th Texas Congressional District, Current Affairs, Gene Green, Houston smart grid, Lloyd Doggett, Science, smart grid, terrorism and the smart grid, Web/Tech
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