Smart meter hacking can disclose which TV shows and movies you watch
August 8th, 2012
(NakedSecurity) – At the 28th Chaos Computing Congress (28c3) hacker conference in Berlin, Germany researchers presented a talk titled “Smart Hacking for Privacy”where they looked into the privacy implications of “smart” electricity meters.
In Germany consumers who wish to contract with independent smart meter providers are able to have one installed in their home via a similar style of subscription you might agree to for a free cellular handset from a mobile phone company.
The researchers, Dario Carluccio and Stephan Brinkhaus, signed up with a company called Discovergy to see what type of information these meters collect, whether they were as secure as the company promised and what they might be able to determine from consumption patterns.
Discovergy’s website made three promises about the security of their devices. The web interface to access your consumption data used HTTPS to ensure no one could snoop on your sessions, the data relayed back to Discovergy was encrypted and signed to prevent forged data and that this had all been confirmed by independent experts. Read More Here
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