The RF problems are noticeable mainly from 9pm till 9am, though have been observed at all hours of the day and night. After receiving the PSC complaint, the problem persists, yet has been attenuated somewhat, meaning adjustments have been made to equipment. When asked via telephone in late May 2012 if Georgia Power had received any complaints about their smart meters, I was told no. I do not believe that is factual.

The base of the problem has been tentatively identified as the work of the installed “smart meters”; after recording and review of the RF “investigation” done by Southern Company employees are completed on Thursday, test equipment measurements and recordings will take place in the days, weeks, and months that follow using personnel and equipment not owned nor operated by The Southern Company to show the presence and source of this serious problem, which The Southern Company has ignored, and denied, before even testing for it. Should it be proven that these serious problems were a result of negligent or determined efforts by the manufacturer, operator and end users of these installed devices, further corrective action must be forthcoming for health and safety reasons. If you would like to observe and/or record their investigation in progress and have access to the follow up third party investigations, contact me. Todd West 770-769-9126

location of tests: 6412 Hwy 140 NW. Adairsville, GA. 30103, Thursday @ 1pm

Also, you’ll love this video from FOX Report. Check out the fire in the guy who says he would MOVE OUT OF TOWN before he’d accept a “smart” meter! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv4Zd05o8Sw

Feel free to send this to the Energy Subcommittee reps; their contact info is at http://www.stopsmartmetersGeorgia.Org. Thanks again!

Nice reporting! Thanks for the information. You are right, bad news is travelling quickly and it wont be stopped. We had a smart meter workshop in Phoenix last Friday, unfortunately there was a media blackout ( couldn’t find a word about it). The hall was packed and the people were educated. People are talking here. There was even a retired Maricopa County Superior Court judge standing up to the ACC and APS.
Anyway, I predict that the wireless industry will be the next “bubble” to pop. Thanks to the, force the smart meter down your throat group.

“Arab Spring” was a good thing? Now there are many Christians that are being killed and their churches are being burnt down. Their freedom is gone, just like what you want to do here in America. I see more freedom of speech quashed every day. You want to take away the freedom to have something so simple like an analog meter on the side of my home. The smart meter has killed and will continue killing, just like the “Arab Spring”.

From your article: “The important thing is to make compromise as painful and time-consuming a process as possible to deter or delay an attacker and implement processes for adequate detection and response” (quote from Wired).

Indeed, this is how computer security in general works. You make the attack unfeasible rather than impossible, and force the attacker to take another approach. How much work you do towards this goal is dictated by the reward an attacker gets from an attack. You watch for intrusion attempts and adjust your stance accordingly. And you build in, from the start, strong controls that provide a good foundation.

This sounds like a reason to understand and audit security controls or actions on the network, rather than a reason to stop construction of it.

If you could turn back the clock, would you have chosen to stop the construction of the Internet if you knew that cyber security was going to be so challenging? I suspect most people would not – I believe that most people would look at Wikipedia, video chat with far-flung family, online services (banking, iTunes, etc), and the “Arab Spring” as good things that happened because of the Internet and accept the cost of security. You could look at how easy it is to create a community around people with similar concerns but who are geographically dispersed, such as stopsmartmeters.org (even if I disagree with your mission) as a benefit of the Internet. These things happened and continue to flourish despite the difficulty in securing them.

We’re going straight to the top! Please call and/or email Governor Deal today, and ask him to intercede on our behalf for Senate Bill 459, an opt out for extremely dangerous “smart” meters. Just as someone on death row heading to the electric chair hopes for a reprieve, so, too, are we, as we head toward our own personal electric chair, the “smart” meter. They can harm your family, your home, and your finances, so please call Gov. Deal at 404-656-1776 (email: http://gov.georgia.gov/00/gov/contact_us/0,2657,165937316_166563415,00.html), and ask him to use his influence to get SB 459 out of the Energy Subcommittee and onto the House floor – there is still time! Thank you. For more information, please visit http://www.stopsmartmetersGeorgia.Org.