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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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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My opinion (shared by independent observers of journalism and propaganda) of Bloomberg had nothing to do with this story. Bloomberg is propaganda. Like RT, they include unslanted stories along with their worked stories. That's just how propaganda works.