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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  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I wonder if an incentive to be well built and reliable ends up being the fact they are strategic assets that can be “called into service” for decades.

    This is some conspiracy brain thinking, but… they did find secret communication devices…