Where are you seeing this claim? I did a quick search on the Google, and found a case of exploding smartmeters in California, caused by a power surge, not hacking. It was reported on Infowars so it has to be true, Alex Jones would not lie.
Then I saw some "expert" telling a conference that hackers could make smartmeters explode, but the line of reasoning seemed to be smartmeters could theoretically be hacked, smartmeters have exploded, therefore hackers could make smartmeters explode. That seems pretty tenuous, even though I suspect security is indeed very lax on these things. Billing fraud, snooping, and shutting off power seem a lot more feasible. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 11:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Smartmeter Security question On 1/2/17 9:15 AM, Nate Burke wrote: > My Smartmeter is only about 3" in Depth, so there isn't much inside of > it. I wasn't home the day when the changed it from the spinning > meter, but somehow they were able to do it without turning the power > to the house off (UPS never went to battery, and no house clocks > reset) Certain socket styles have bypasses so you can pull the meter without interrupting the load. ~Seth
