On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:34:12 +0100, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Martin Barclay was thinking very hard :
On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:02:43 +0000, Huge wrote:

Smart meters - 5 points:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHQT16jBFEw

Which contains mostly bull****, technobabble.

They don't transmit low frequency they transmit on UHF to the indoor unit.
Once per day they transmit on the mobile phone channel, to send the data.
The risk is several orders of magnitude less to the customer, than using a
mobile phone next to the head.

I have never heard of an SM being hacked, to monitor their usage, nor
anyones gas or power being turned off by a hacker. There are much easier
methods of finding out if a home is unoccupied, than trying to hack into a
meter anyway.

The one thing he got right, was that you can still refuse to have an SM.

Smart electricity meters can be dangerously insecure, warns expert.
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...secure-hackers

https://boingboing.net/2016/12/31/yo...ery-secur.html

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/1...y_reserachers/


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