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Reminds me of a former indian take away i had to do some refurb work in once, it turned out they had bypassed the gas meter and had a valve to get free gas under the cupboard. they had 1000s of free gas and got slapped with a huge fine for it!
 
As a matter of interest anyone know about those meters you see in the pic? They are HH meters and have an RS232 and antenae coming out of them so are presumably wireless. I ask because I had heard maybe a thread on here that someone pulled the main fuse and the suppliers were there within the hour they knew the fuse had been pulled. I wonder if they can switch off the supply remotely? DNO thought not but then they did say they do not really know about meters. Maybe that is why the meter did not work?
 
I have been told that with the new smart meters different electric firms or dno depending on how they have systems set up and if they can be arsed to monitor are able to know if you pull the fuse. The meters cant determine if its blown or been pulled so they send somebody out or call the bill payer to check. I have a eon smart meter on my electric and when i had an issue with the little display not working they switched the whole meter as they are configured for individual displays. When the person from morris utilities i think it was changed meter he told me they can effectively shut it off remotely and he rung through to somebody who made the screen flash allsorts of numbers using the in built simcard. So they can 100% dial up into the meter and control it remotely. Its only a matter of time until a spotty kid hacks into them and cauaes chaos.
 
Its only a matter of time until a spotty kid hacks into them and cauaes chaos.

Read the following on another forum yesterday that made me laugh:
My cousin is a bit of a wizz kid and he reakons that within another few days he will have perfected a way to turn his noisey neighbors power off from the comfort of his bedroom!
 

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