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

[Brian Gladman]

On 02/01/2017 17:11, Steve Furlong wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Wendy M. Grossman
> <wendyg at pelicancrossing.net <mailto:wendyg at pelicancrossing.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Ross Anderson has written a great deal about this. In his view, I
>> believe the biggest risk is that hackers can crash the grid by turning
>> the meters all off at once, from where it would take the Uk sevveral
>> weeks to recover.
> 
> Do you have a cite for that last claim? The first ten Google matches for
> "ross anderson smart meters" didn't contain the words "restore" or
> "recover", nor "week" in this context. I'm not doubting what you say,
> but would like to refer to it in my own arguments for caution in
> smartifying every item in our lives.

There is some coverage here:

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/meters-offswitch.pdf

   Brian Gladman