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Claude Code just caught a stranger stealing the power from my solar panels. For 11 months, at 3am every night, he drained our home battery into the grid, right before every blackout, and got paid $930 for it
We put 6 kW of panels on the roof last December and bought a 10 kWh battery for the flat. We did it for one reason: so our kids would never sit in the dark again. The installer set everything up in one afternoon. I signed up for the green tariff and never touched a single setting.
The payments were always weirdly small. This morning the statement came in even smaller, so I asked Claude Code one question: why does my green tariff pay so little?
It found the inverter on our Wi-Fi in 4 seconds and read its raw registers. Then it opened the tariff statement, and page 7 had one line in tiny print: "Excluded: volumes sold via balancing contract #7731."
I never signed a balancing contract. I'd never even heard of one.
The inverter asked for a password. Claude Code typed admin/admin, the factory default from the box, and it opened. Then the inverter told it who it actually works for:
→ /program → VPP-AGG-7731, a power trading program
→ /owner → M. K*****, a man I've never met
→ /payout → UA21 3052 **** 4417, not my account
→ /enrolled → Dec 3, 2025, the day the installer came
→ /dispatch → battery to grid, 03:00, every single night
→ /app_label → "self-consumption"
The app on my phone was lying to me for 11 months. It said our power stayed home while a stranger sold it every night.
Then Claude Code pulled the Kyiv blackout schedule and matched it against the dispatch log. This is the part I can't stop thinking about:
blackout nights → 41
battery sold hours before the outage → 38
our power → 1,842 kWh
his money → ≈ $930
He wasn't selling random power. He was selling it on the exact nights the grid needed it most, which are the nights it paid the most. The same nights the lights went out in our flat.
38 times we went to bed with a full battery and woke up in the dark. My daughter did her homework by phone flashlight. I thought the battery was just getting old.
I typed "but i never signed anything". Claude Code said I didn't have to. The installer's account enrolled our inverter, and my name isn't on that contract anywhere.
It cut the inverter off from the cloud and locked it to local mode. Right now the cloud is still trying to send dispatch commands every few seconds. The terminal just keeps printing REJECTED. REJECTED. REJECTED.
Then it wrote one last line:
"That account was active 4 minutes ago."
He's still logged in. And the same installer did half the roofs on our street.
Tonight the battery stayed at 71%. My wife set an alarm for 3am just to watch it not drop.
The full dispatch log is in the comments. The prompt I used is in the second one. If you have solar panels, run it tonight. Your inverter might be working for someone else too.
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You ordered groceries, but the motorized cooler scanned your face geometry to feed AI datasets. Every sidewalk convenience eventually collapses into an unconsented surveillance grift.
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Man builds Flock-like license plate readers to only track police cars. Cops show up to his door to interrogate him due to "privacy violations."
They seem to forget they are *public* servants. They don’t have a right to privacy. Every single thing they do while on the clock the public has a right to know about.
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Flock deployed 120,000 surveillance cameras, then trimmed data retention to seven days to appease Congress. The panopticon is already permanent; the hearing is just routine administrative theater.
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No cameras. No sensors.
Just Wi-Fi reading human movement.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that uses standard WiFi routers to detect human movement through walls—without any cameras.
By applying AI and DensePose model, the system turns WiFi signals into detailed maps of body posture in real time.
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Recommend uninstalling #Mozilla #Firefox #browser immediately and switching to a more #privacy friendly alternative. Not only do Mozilla now claim a license to your data, they removed the assurance that they do not sell it. #infosec #dfir #security
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Mozilla just changed the Firefox TOS. If you're a privacy person, might be time to move off.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is now outdated. Mozilla updated the Terms of Use to be more clear:
It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.
blog.mozilla.org/en/products/fi…
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Mozilla has just deleted the following:
“Does Firefox sell your personal data?”
“Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "
github.com/mozilla/bedrock/c…
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Kroger, in collaboration with Microsoft, $MSFT, has introduced facial recognition technology in its stores, per BBC.
This system aims to personalize shopping experiences by identifying customers and possibly tailoring prices individually.
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As law enforcement and businesses increasingly use technology to manage everything, your chances of being arrested for stuff you didn’t do are rising.
Link:
lifehacker.com/tech/how-tech…
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Telegram will now provide IP addresses and phone numbers in response to legal requests engt.co/4ezXNF6
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It’s patently absurd that Apple isn’t smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security & privacy!
Apple has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re selling you down the river.
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the thing about mass surveillance is that it induces a positive feedback loop: behavior revealed by mass surveillance is used as evidence that there needs to be more surveillance. with no limiting principle (fourth amendment or equiv), this quickly spirals out of control
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In India the government is close to passing laws that make end to end encryption unworkable, with the consequence that WhatsApp may leave the country. In Europe it’s worse: the EU may mandate mass scanning of conversations.
