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One alarming academic article by Dheeraj Gurugubelli and Dr Chris Foreman of Purdue University sets out how a targeted attack on smart meters could potentially result in the shutdown of the power grid, disabling energy delivery systems. (They argue that “the compromise of even a single smart meter through focused attack or reverse engineering potentially provides access to the AMI network as a whole. This, coupled with the extensive use of multiple wireless technologies and geographic dispersion, results in an attack surface of unprecedented scale.”

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“Unless they have been independently tested, we don’t know that they have made a correct choice and implemented a good algorithm, and use appropriate methods to generate and distribute keys,” according to Eugene H. Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue University.

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