US energy officials have found unexplained communication equipment inside some Chinese-made inverter devices.

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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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  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    15 hours ago

    China has been doing this in a lot of hardware. It’s a huge national security risk to not screen inbound hardware for problems, but doesn’t really happen because that would be a monumental task.

    Hell, look at what Israel did with those pagers. It’s crazy to think that other nations haven’t been putting malicious packages in their electronics as well.

      • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Like yeah its concerning no doubt, but imagining whatbthey ae doing without evidence while the main competition and market leader is a fascist cunt who disables functionality just before impact to shed blame and doctors mileage reports.

        They get away with it because we are not better, if the competition was better they would have to meet them where they are.