On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:42:53 -0000, Tim Watts wrote:

On Friday 13 December 2013 09:35 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y:

On 2013-12-12, mogga wrote:
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:41:10 +0000, Tim Watts
wrote:


They are remote controlled and dim-able, we've got them too.


Let the hacking being!

Is that possible?

SCADA systems are usually poorly protected.


And if "they" cannot apply solid network security to pumping stations and
the like, I very much doubt if anyone has bothered much about some street
lamps!

One of the reasons I do not want a smartmeter for electricity...

You don't want to be able to hack your own meter?

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