Wi-Fi Electricity Meters Helping Burglars? Easily Hacked, Showing Whether You're Home Wednesday Oct 24 2012 08:25 EDT Add increased home thefts as another potential side-effect of utilities' efforts to deploy electricity meters with embedded Wi-Fi. We've already noted how these meters have a strong tendency to interfere with home routers and WISP equipment, but now concerns are being raised that they're too easy to hack, allowing people to easily determine when residents haven't been at home. Security researchers tell New Scientist that they were able to hack into most common Wi-Fi embedded utility meters using just $1,000 of gear from 500 meters away, letting them easily see who was -- or wasn't -- home. "I consider it an embarrassment that this kind of technology is deployed with no protection whatsoever," one researcher complains. |
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big_e
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2012-Oct-24 11:43 am
Pure FUDThere is a large piece of machinery that most american adults own and the presence of which helps burglars determine whether or not you are home... It's called an automobile. Most houses have a button that when pressed will also aide a burglar in determining if your are home... The doorbell. There are also devices installed in your home that help burglars determine if you are home after dark. They are called lights.
The average burglar is not a fiendish lock picking cat burglar that dodges lasers to steal the hope diamond like you see in the movies. They are largely uneducated drug addicts that will throw a brick through your window to get in, steal your stuff, and fence it for pennies on the dollar to buy their next hit. | | Bob4Account deleted
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Bob4
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2012-Oct-24 8:53 am
Stupidest story of the yearMy 6 kW air-conditioner runs when I'm not home, and is sometimes not running when I am home. So the data is useless.
Also, how do they know which meter is at which house? After collecting data from 500 electric meters, they're going to walk around comparing meter numbers?
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