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Smart meter

wallace said:
Surely they have no need to switch off peoples supply. All they would need to do is turn the smart meter onto pay as you go mode. Then if they wouldnt or couldnt pay then they are cutting themselves off. When my daughter got her first place she wasnt allowed to pay monthly DD.
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Good point although it may be more complicated in practice by outstanding arrears also needing to be cleared.
 
Windows said:
Computing devices with wireless capabilities can be targeted with OTA proximity attacks - don’t always have to target the larger network. Given the density of UK housing, I imagine that propagating from meter to meter would be an interesting approach for rapid deployment or even slow deployment. Not sure what hardware is in a smart meter, but a compromised device with a radio sitting in proximity of your WiFi and Bluetooth phones, computers, routers quietly capturing useful packets would not be great for security of your home WiFi network either.

Smart meters are not unique in this regard, of course, but low diversity of device, high distribution, slow hardware updates, permanently powered, and real-world effects of a takeover makes them a particularly attractive target for attackers.
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All very true, and your follow up message, and yet here we are with it not having happened... What's possible, and what's realistic or worth the effort to do all make up the threat landscape as you clearly know.

I'm not saying it can't happen, but I just don't see the value right now and neither do the attackers because they're focussing in other areas. Time will, as always, tell the full story...
 
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