Re:Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
by pjerem on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:42AM
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The dry contact I'm talking about is totally opt-in. It's a physical contact that is not used by default. You can, if you want, wire it to a power line on which you can plug a subset of your appliances.
So the surface attack of this feature is that an hacker could stop you water boiler to heat or your car to charge, but you'd just have to plug them to the rest of your (still working) network.
And yes, the electricity provider could probably switch off your provisioning remotely. But that's not a novelty. That was always possible. Now it can be done safely.
And I'd like to add that the Linky is NOT connected to the internet. It's connected to the electricity provider network so you need to control the electricity provider in order to hack the meter. But at this point, if you gain control of the network, there is no interest in hacking the meters.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11470588/ https://next-episode.net/blackout-2021 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/136365-blackout
And before anyone replies that it won't come that far, please consider three things:
- We are using an AC power network, not a DC one.
- The power grid is the backbone of modern society.
- Try to find one big technology deployment which was deemed "safe" and actually kept that promise. Because I can easily find countless counter examples reaching from the Titanic to your latest game console.