On 12/06/2018 16:27, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Martin Barclay pretended :
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...secure-hackers
Well, if its in the press, it must be right and must be believed - not.
Does anyone seriously believe any of this? Has there ever been a single,
reliably reported incident of any of this actually happening? I guess
not, but it helps to sell newspapers.
He can do billing fraud, setting your bill to whatever he likes ¦ The
scary thing is if you think about the power they have over your
electricity. He will have power over all of your smart devices connected
to the electricity. This will have more severe consequences: imagine you
woke up to find youd been robbed by a burglar who didnt have to break in.
But even if you dont have smart devices, you are still at risk. An
attacker who controls the meter also controls the meters software,
allowing him to cause it to literally explode.
Someone should ask the idiot which physical device in a smart meter can
be made to explode using software, he won't know. H e has seen too many
hollywood movies where things explode when a hacker does something.
Long gone are the days when setting the wrong refresh rate could
overload a monitor which was about the only household item you could get
to "explode".