SMALL COMFORT: Utilities say their customers should have little to fear, with electricity meters using the same sort of security measures that have made online banking widely accepted as safe.
FRANKFURT: Last November, Felix Lindner came very close to shutting down the power supply of Ettlingen, a town of almost 40,000 people in the south of Germany.
"We could have switched off everything: power, water, gas," Lindner, head of Berlin-based Recurity Labs, an IT security company, said.
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