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

[Ben Tasker]

>
> On 2017-01-02 17:11, Steve Furlong wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
Can't find a reference for recovery taking a week, but his papers to refer
to such an attack being the modern equivalent of a nuclear strike

The abstract here - http://stopsmartmeters.org.uk/
who-controls-the-smart-meter-off-switch-prof-ross-anderson-
cambridge-university/ - makes reference to it and then links out to the
original paper.

A quick scan of it though suggests it's largely a passing reference rather
than going into too much detail about the various consequences of such an
attack (there're a couple of paragraphs).



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Ben Tasker
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