Er maybe it’s not smart to have smart electronics after all. We’re being spied on, tracked and controlled. Never have I wanted so badly to live off grid in the bush.
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I am a VP of Tech for an energy services company. This is nominally NOT about smart thermostats. This is happening because these idiot families signed up for a program where they ALLOWED the energy company to do this. It's literally right in the article:
In the industry we call this "Demand Response", and normally you get paid for it. It's actually a very mutually-beneficial program for industrial companies. I would not advise residential customers to do this (hence why I called them idiots).
So for them to turn around and belly-ache about smart thermostats is uneducated at best and self-serving+untruthful at worst.
If it’s online the alphabet agencies have access to it. Ever read Wikileaks? This isn’t far fetched sci-fi bullshit. I’m not saying the doorbell is out to get people....it’s the fuckin spooks monitoring ever breath you take.
Perhaps not everyone who has this shit is being monitored, but everyone who has this shit has the potential to be monitored. Cell phones are a given. Easy to trace and hack. Automobile computers and satellite navigation are vulnerable. All tech has back doors.
I never said anything about AI, but I believe you are way behind with your beliefs on our alphabet agencies’ capabilities. The NSA collects everything. Everything. Tests, emails, communications, etc. The Utah data center is 1 million sq ft. Yes, one fuckin million sq ft. Why would they need so much room? Wake up dude. The Matrix has you.
Well, maybe your ring camera won't, but if they decide to raise thermostats then what's stopping them from disabling the thermostat or raising it to a dangerous temperature in the name of "saving energy"? Hundreds of old people die from heatwaves every year. This could be another Cuomo old home-type plan to cull more of our senior citizens. Knowing all we know about these psychopaths in power, how can you not be a little skeptical?
If you need to resort to name calling, you've lost the argument.