According to a motion the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed in Sacramento Superior Court last week, Nguyen and Decker are only two of more than 33,000 Sacramento-area people who have been flagged to the sheriff’s department by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, the electricity provider for the region. SMUD called the customers out for using what it and department investigators said were suspiciously high amounts of electricity indicative of illegal cannabis farming.

  • @[email protected]
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    263 days ago

    My gaming desktop and basement server uses enough power to be flagged as a grow. Fuck these guys gonna hassle me for being a geek.

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      3 days ago

      Cops:

      We suspect you have a grow operation.

      Nerds:

      I’ve certainly been growing the size of my LAN.

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      173 days ago

      i remember there were false flags that were raised before when crypto mining operations were flagged as an illegal weed operation