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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  • quoll@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Hmmm. Unnamed “people” of some unnamed US spook organization find rogue devices in an undisclosed number of Chinese solar inverters and batteries of not named brands which alerts Europe. Smells fishy.

    100% after no evidence ever emerged about the supermicro motherboards with supposed spy chips on them… and everyone that actually bought them called bullshit, we should maintain a healthy degree of scepticism.

    extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence… but really any evidence would be nice.

    fuck china, taiwan ftw :D