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FBI Says Smart Meter Hacks Are Likely To Spread
tsu doh nimh writes "A series of hacks perpetrated against so-called 'smart meter' installations over the past several years may have cost a single U.S. electric utility hundreds of millions of dollars annually, the FBI said in cyber intelligence bulletin first revealed today. The law enforcement agency said this is the first known report of criminals compromising the hi-tech meters, and that it expects this type of fraud to spread across the country as more utilities deploy smart grid technology."
You can do the numbers on a per-line or a per-substation basis, possibly even more granular than that.
That's brilliant! To get specific enough information for legal recourse, we'll need maximum granularity, which means tracking the usage for each customer! We can put their meter right on their house for convenience!
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
You're electric bill would be directly proportional to the number of quiet afternoons I had to listen to you music in my house :) Damn kids! you call that music?!!? Get off my lawn!
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
When I hear "BC Hydro", I don't think of electricity.
What about thieves who regularly intercept wireless signals from the meters to determine occupancy patterns, then come back and break in when no one's home?
Do these meters have end-to-end encryption?
Just take one of your spare tin foil hats and wrap it around the meter. That way the black helicopters can't sneak up on you.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!