Your smart meter is very secure (against you) and very insecure (against hackers)

[Aloisius]

@JohnEightThirty

That doesn’t excuse the utility from their responsibility to secure the device. But the common, and persuasive, argument that “I bought and paid for this (car / computer / thermostat / toothbrush) and therefore have a right to see and modify its software” does not apply. Unless you’re an electric utility.

Odd. Did your power company make you buy your own electric meter? PG&E owns mine. They also own my gas meter. My water company owns my water meter. Heck, the city owns my trash cans.

@bheerssen

I could think of several advantages to this, first being that the power company couldn’t regulate how you use your power.

Why would the power company be regulating how you use power? Smart meters are so the power company can do time-based pricing for consumption or generation of power. As far as I know, they have nothing to do with the power company regulating how you use power.