Inside a smart meter, and the REAL problem with them.
What it is
Big Clive tears down a smart meter with a wireless modem found among fly-tipped materials. He examines its internals and checks conspiracy claims about microphones, cameras and 5G.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Pointed to as a clear look at what is inside a smart meter, including anti-tamper switches and the cellular module.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2020, last 2024
What HN commenters said
“One of the best explorations I've seen of this is Big Clive's tear down of a smart meter.”
Teardown showing anti-tampering switches and last-gasp modem capacitor
jon-wood, 2020-09 · Recommendation · in “Bypassing ESP32 Encrypted Secure Boot”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: smart meter, electronics teardown, big clive, gprs modem, tamper detection
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