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• Researcher touts breakthrough in understanding how tin whiskers screw up everything from servers to smartphones

• Some smart electricity meters are stupid about privacy

• Smart meters not so clever about privacy, researchers find

  A University of South Carolina study found smart meters transmitting plain text information that could be used against home owners

• Tire tags reveal driver whereabouts

  Automobile tire pressure monitoring systems show little concern for security