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March 3rd 04, 01:04 PM
Wes Stewart
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On 3 Mar 2004 07:14:36 GMT,
(Peter Lemken)
wrote:
|BPL technology can enable a variety of enhanced power distribution
|applications, including:
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| * Automated meter reading
|All of this by means of TCP/IP.
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|For those not in the IT-Security business: With these services the power
|companies are in fact handing over control over the power grid to anyone
|with some understanding of network technology.
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|BPL is really bad for ham radio, but remote controlling critical
|infrastructures over public networks is worse.
|
|I mean *really* worse.
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|Someone should beat *some* sense into these people.
They'll come to their senses when some hacker posts on the Internet
the instructions for making it look like your watt/hour meter is
running backwards.
N7WS
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