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I hear over and over how we are and will be controlled electronically. Smart meters running appliances, information sucked out of cars and transmitted...
chickensoup | chickensoup

Posted on 09/16/2023 3:02:50 AM PDT by Chickensoup

I hear over and over how we are and will be controlled electronically. Smart meters running appliances, information sucked out of cars and transmitted...

So are there ways of shielding meters and cars from passing along information?

Just like there are people who change power settings on trucks with chips are there people who are designing items for protection of our privacy in consumer goods?

Or do we just cover everything in tinfoil?


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I hear over and over how we are and will be controlled electronically. Smart meters running appliances, information sucked out of cars and transmitted...

So are there ways of shielding meters and cars from passing along information?

Just like there are people who change power settings on trucks with chips are there people who are designing items for protection of our privacy in consumer goods?

Or do we just cover everything in tinfoil?

1 posted on 09/16/2023 3:02:50 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

Take charge of how automotive power is used,select functions you want off to conserve your battery.

https://eepower.com/news/st-introduces-new-automotive-power-management-chip-to-reduce-car-battery-load/#


2 posted on 09/16/2023 3:20:01 AM PDT by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: Chickensoup

3 posted on 09/16/2023 3:23:13 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Socialism should more accurately be called Sociopathism)
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To: Chickensoup

If you block the information from your electric meter, you may suffer consequences. The power company may just shut you off. This is because they have no other way to read the meter other than to send out a technician and they are no longer staffed to send out a technician to read a meter. You’ll probably find there is a clause in your agreement that if you mess with the meter, you lose the meter. As for things like the “internet of things” there is no reason to have that at all. I played hell trying to get my HP printer, which I only bought to use as a scanner, not to connect. Eventually, I couldn’t use it anymore, so it went into the can. There is no reason for your refrigerator to talk to the internet. As for the car, if they pass legislation to track your mileage you can bet that if you disconnect the device that the first time you pass a reader and it doesn’t get a read, you will be targeted and pulled over because it will be tax evasion.

Incidentally, I worked for Regency Communications when they designed the first remote read power meter. I can attest that the only thing on the engineer’s mind was cutting down the manpower required by the power company to operate. Reading the meter can be dangerous as you have to get into fenced yards with dogs. Discussing this with my power company the woman told me that the amount of cheating by the self-read meters went to zero. Before it was commonplace. That meant honest people were paying the bills of dishonest people.


4 posted on 09/16/2023 3:24:29 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Chickensoup

Interesting topic.

On cars, most all of the premium vehicles now made...have a cellphone ‘relationship’ with the car and data passes along. No cellphone? No data passing along. I expect that various ‘geeks’ will offer their services to cut the data transfer possibility, and the government will make this illegal in some way.

As for the smart-meter? Once you think about the increasing methods/ways that limited electricity will be produced, they are simply herding you to times of the day when you can run household items (freezers, washers, AC units). Adding to your burden is the E-car which has to be recharged.

Eventually, your smart-meter controllers will ask you about the type of washer/dryer, the model of your freezer unit, your E-car status, and out will come some ‘instruction’ to say that for 16 hours a day...you get limited ‘juice’ (enough to run a TV, laptop and refrigerator unit). You might have AC covered, but it’ll be at some 85-degree setting for the daytime. The smart-meter will then say you can only wash dishes or clothing after 9 PM, or charge-up your E-car.

When you start seeing washers/dryer/refrigerators with Wi-Fi connectivity....that’s the entry angle to this control. My son recently bought a washer unit which has a Wi-Fi control (it basically is prepared to be turned on, and he just sends a signal from his office to start, at a particular time).

The more ‘they’ know about you...the more control they can exert.


5 posted on 09/16/2023 3:24:29 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: VRW Conspirator
From 2014..

Weird Al, Foil

Weird AL was prescient.

6 posted on 09/16/2023 3:25:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Chickensoup

Totally depends on the device(s)...”Smart Meters” (electricity) just report your usage (via cellular)...mess with that and the power co. disconnects you. You voluntarily sign up for the “turn off your A/C thermostat” interface device for lower “time of day” rates...don’t sign up for that. Most vehicle spying can be eliminated by not paying for the “telematics”/cellular features or by not signing up for reduced insurance rates with the OBD-II “spy device”. “Drive Safe & Save”, etc.. Auto insurance companies have been known to read your onboard OBD “black box” after an accident claim tho..


7 posted on 09/16/2023 3:25:39 AM PDT by Drago
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To: Chickensoup

Two layers of extra-strength tinfoil, just to be sure.


8 posted on 09/16/2023 3:30:08 AM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: Chickensoup

Cell phone data can be easily picked up if your car is equipped w/bluetooth, where you can have your cell phone audio come out over the stereo speakers. In my car, the box providing the bluetooth is easily unplugged and is under the passenger seat.


9 posted on 09/16/2023 3:31:12 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

Here’s a tinfoil hat idea...

Maybe the reason it’s so hard to get a CD player in a car anymore was to force people to use Bluetooth.


10 posted on 09/16/2023 3:41:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
On a related note, from May...

Say goodbye to AM radio: Why carmakers are removing it from new models

11 posted on 09/16/2023 3:42:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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For starters have an off grid house and drive an old car. I was in a dealership recently looking at new vehicles....gave the sales rep the list of what I wanted my next vehicle to NOT be able to do. Told them personal privacy was the top item of importance on my list and if they couldn’t meet that no deal. I’m still waiting...but I am in no rush.


12 posted on 09/16/2023 3:49:44 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: Chickensoup

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In a trove of documents released Tuesday, WikiLeaks included code that it says shows the CIA worked with U.K. intelligence officials to turn microphones in TVs into listening devices.


13 posted on 09/16/2023 3:50:42 AM PDT by Haddit
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To: Drago

So far


14 posted on 09/16/2023 3:52:39 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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I know the government is sucking information out of my microwave oven. The government wants to know exactly how many seconds I reheat my coffee and defrost my steak.

I'm doomed, I tell ya. Doomed.

The government can control me now.

15 posted on 09/16/2023 4:00:23 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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Everything in the new car runs off Google. The infotainment system is a POS because it’s Google. I don’t log into any account so we lose a lot of so called capabilities... all data transfers and logging are turned off although it’s probably on anyway. My phone stays home 99% of the time so that’s irrelevant. Appliances are blocked from the Internet. We lose power I have a whole house generator..with WiFi that I blocked and don’t use either.

It is what it is and I block what I can.


16 posted on 09/16/2023 4:00:25 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Chickensoup

Yep, “opt-out” is still a thing for now...looks to be going away in the more fascist future...trouble is any “tinfoil signal blocking attempts” will be discouraged in the future by penalties/jail time.


17 posted on 09/16/2023 4:00:37 AM PDT by Drago
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To: mewzilla

I think the removal of AM radios from cars was stopped by FEMA or similar.


18 posted on 09/16/2023 4:10:50 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: mewzilla

I think that one starts as a money play where the younger folks prefer streaming and satellite radio. They’re simply not into, and certainly not used to, lugging around CDs, cassettes, or 8 tracks.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the car companies get a slice out of every satellite subscription sold or stream to a car.

Once such an infrastructure is in place, it’s a natural tendency for a totalitarian governments to take advantage of it for surveillance purposes.


19 posted on 09/16/2023 4:12:58 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Gen.Blather
I played hell trying to get my HP printer, which I only bought to use as a scanner, not to connect.

My parents have had a HP multi function color laser printer for some time. I used HP Smart to scan their documents to the computer. Then out of the blue, HP wanted an account sign on to use the feature. I just used scan to USB. That was rather annoying.

20 posted on 09/16/2023 4:24:29 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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