[Cryptography] Smart electricity meters can be dangerously insecure, warns expert

[Rui Paulo]

On Sun, 2017-01-01 at 12:42 -0500, Kent Borg wrote:
> One thing smart meters are used for is to manage peak load: maybe
> you 
> agree to have your AC cycled off occasionally and get an rate break
> in 
> exchange. (You still get cooling, but it cycles on a schedule that
> helps 
> manage total load.)

I think that's often a separate SoC connected to the A/C and to the
provider's mesh network, not the meter itself.

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Rui Paulo