This information has never been secret. Most electricity meters are mounted on the outside of the structure in an easily accessible location with dials that are easy to read at a distance with a pair of binoculars. This is by design, allowing the utility companies to do meter readings as efficiently as possible.

I have to second this, iSSH is surprisingly usable on the iPhone... it works well when you just need to jump in and attach to an already running gnu screen session to check on a job from a meeting or on the bus. Its not something that you'd write 10k lines of code in, but I would hate to be without it now. It even has a built-in X server.

My only wish is that it had skey/otp support built in, its a pain to have to keep switch to a different app to generate an skey response.