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

Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net
Mon Jan 2 15:15:59 EST 2017



On 01/02/2017 05:10 AM, Wendy M. Grossman 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.

It's a valid threat.  If someone turned *off* the power of a large
part of a city, all at once, I think most of the transformers at
the substations would explode.

				Bear


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