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21 March 2016 • 2 min read

Schoolboy encryption error could have left the UK's 53 million smart meters wide open to hacking

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...

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