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‘Rogue’ devices found in Chinese solar inverters raises cybersecurity alarm in Europe (www.pv-tech.org)
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US energy officials have found unexplained communication equipment inside some Chinese-made inverter devices.

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Reuters reported the presence of undocumented and “rogue” communication devices in a number of Chinese-made solar inverters. These could potentially introduce unregulated and undocumented remote communication channels to the inverters, by which an actor could remotely bypass the cybersecurity firewalls that utility companies use to prevent direct communication back to China.

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[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Batteries pack with radio is weird. But really I don't understand why we don't have technical details.

[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because it's propaganda fearmongering.

[–] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

It surely sounds like it. Which is annoying if they are crying out wolf, because China can and probably will (or did) put backdoors in its equipment.