Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about the Texas snowstorm

Re:Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about th... by djanogo on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:38PM (#27633115)

Sort of agree, the only "secret" in this case is how long the meter has been up?, I assume they can mitigate the "hack" by just rebooting RF part of the meter randomly? (I only say this because I read they have remote capability to reboot zigbee feature)

I know they stopped accepting zigbee device pairing starting this year, and only allow authenticated API based requests which is delayed by 24 hours. Right now there is no way for customer to get real time data from the meters themselves.

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Re:Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about th... by jackson1442 on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:59PM (#27634192)

I think this is interesting not necessarily in a security sense, but more in a "wow, you can do that" kind of sense. Also considering how distribution companies have refused to provide this data, you'd think it would be harder to obtain.

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Re:Hacker reveals smart meters are spilling secrets about th... by BitBangingBytes on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:35PM (#27638558)

There are two radio’s in the meter, one for zigbee and one for the 900MHz mesh that sends this data back to power company. The zigbee side isn’t used at all here anymore, they killed our ability to view our usage with it.

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