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GCHQ forced to intervene to prevent catastrophically insecure smart metering plan | Computing
Intelligence agency GCHQ has been forced to intervene in the UK’s smart metering rollout to prevent gas and electricity companies from installing systems that would be catastrophically insecure and wide open to hacking.
GCHQ intervened after seeing plans by the companies behind the scheme to use a single decryption key across the whole of the network to decrypt communications between smart meters and providers. With just one decryption key effectively securing some 53 million smart meters across the UK, a hacker could conceivably cause chaos across the network by shutting off power to people’s electricity meters.
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