FBI Says Smart Meter Hacks Are Likely To Spread

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 9, 2012 @05:50AM from the ignorance-is-bliss dept.

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."

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Re:So how come they are "smart" meters? by Forty+Two+Tenfold · 2012-04-09 06:53 · Score: -1, Troll

You're electric bill [...] you music in my house
One would think that a user of the 1xxxxx lot had more than enough time to learn English properly...

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Re:So how come they are "smart" meters? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-09 12:58 · Score: -1, Troll

You took lessons from a thief? How do you know that nigger taught you everything correctly?