cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34531692
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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Reuters (the second link) reports the news as “rogue communication devices”, but also mentions battery packs with “undocumented cellular radios”.
Batteries pack with radio is weird. But really I don’t understand why we don’t have technical details.
Because it’s propaganda fearmongering.
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.