Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
We’ve been following the deployment of so-called smart meters which, as has been pointed out, are not particularly secure, giving rise to privacy concerns for consumers. Now there is a problem for the utilities themselves according to this report about an FBI document: hacking of smart meters to steal electricity.
krebsonsecurity.com/2012/04/fbi-smart-meter-hacks-likely-to-spread/
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