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Chinese ‘kill switches’ found hidden in US solar farms
Hidden cellular radios could be activated remotely to cripple power grids in the event of a confrontation between China and the West
Over the past nine months, the suspect devices were found in inverters and batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers by US experts who strip down equipment to check for security issues before they are connected to power grids. “Ten years ago, if you switched off the Chinese inverters, it would not have caused a dramatic thing to happen to European grids, but now the critical mass is much larger,” Philipp Schröder, the chief executive of German solar developer 1Komma5, said. Whether it’s telecom hacks or remotely accessing solar and battery inverters, the CCP stops at nothing to target our sensitive infrastructure and components,” August Pfluger, a Republican congressman and member of the US Senate homeland security committee, told Reuters.
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