Smart Meters Reveal What You're Watching

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @08:17AM from the we're-always-watching dept.

xororand writes "H-Online reports that 'researchers at the Münster University of Applied Sciences have discovered that it is possible to use electricity usage data from smart electricity meters to determine which programmes consumers are watching on a standard TV set. By analysing electricity consumption patterns, it is, in principle, also possible to identify films played from a DVD or other source.' It's time for some clever EEs to come up with a countermeasure. Unfortunately alumfoil hats have already been dismissed."

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Re:In Soviet Amerika.. by prefec2 · 2011-09-20 09:21 · Score: 3, Funny

I thought TV in America is like TV in 1984, but in color and with more channels.
Finally! by srussia · 2011-09-20 09:51 · Score: 1, Funny

I can camouflage my grow op simply by modulating the lights using a photocell aimed at a TV tuned 24/7 to Fox News!

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