WAM and Wait A Moment!. This doesn’t feel or smell entirely right.
Here you will find some stories, with an electronics theme, researched and (mostly) written for British publication Practical Electronics and re-purposed here with kind permisssion.
Smartmeters – those electronic gismos that the gas and electric companies are surprisingly keen to fit in your home for free. They don’t just let the supply company know what you’ve spent, without the need to send out a paid-for human to read your meter. They also let the supply company turn off your supply, or convert it to more expensive pay-as-you-go use, all at the flick of a switch from a warm, comfy office in the power company HQ.