Identity for the smart grid

The Smart Grid screams for a User-Centric Identity Metasystem but instead we get a brain dead unsecure mess.

If you haven't figured it out by now, I have some eclectic interests and at some level they all do interconnect.  At least I THINK they interconnect.

I've a sensor network in my home and follow the whole smart grid, power monitoring space.  Some day I'll publish some info on what I have in my home and what I plan to do. 

So, I was terrified to read about how little attention is paid to security of power meters.  What planet are these companies on that build sloppy embedded software that is not secure.  The bad guys won't need to blow up power pylons, they can just send out a command to their bot net and turn everything off.

Did you like the way I got a plug in for the User-Centric Identity Metasystem proposal that Kim Cameron posted earlier this week? ;-)